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  • Published: 29 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9780140276046
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 848
  • RRP: $45.00
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When China Rules The World

The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded]




We have barely begun to understand what life will be like when China rules the world. This book explains how that will come about and what will change

China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese.

Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and culture. To this end, he introduces a powerful set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, a very different concept of the state, and the principle of contested modernity.

First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - 'When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of a New Global Order' has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and has been the subject of an immensely popular TED talk. In the three years since the first edition was published, the book has transformed the debate about China worldwide and proved remarkably prescient.

In this greatly expanded and fully updated paperback edition, with nearly three-hundred pages of new material backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China's ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, thereby transforming the world as we know it.

  • Published: 29 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9780140276046
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 848
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques co-edited and co-authored The Forward March of Labour Halted?, The Politics of Thatcherism, and New Times. Jacques co-founded the UK think-tank Demos, has been a columnist for the Times of London, and was editor of Marxism Today and deputy editor of the Independent. He currently writes a regular column for the Guardianand is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre.

Praise for When China Rules The World

By far the best book on China to have been published in many years, and one of the most important inquiries into the nature of modernisation. Jacques's comprehensive and richly detailed analysis will be an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to understand contemporary China

John Gray, New Statesman

Provocative ... stimulating ... full of bold but credible predictions ... I suspect it will long be remembered for its foresight and insight

Michael Rank, Guardian

This important book, deeply considered, full of historical understanding and realism, is about more than China. It is about a twenty-first-century world no longer modelled on and shaped by North Atlantic power, ideas and assumptions. I suspect it will be highly influential

Eric Hobsbawm

Jacques's book will provoke argument and is a tour de force across a host of disciplines

Mary Dejevsky, The Independent

[An] exhaustive, incisive exploration of possibilities that many people have barely begun to contemplate about a future dominated by China. ... [Jacques] has written a work of considerable erudition, with provocative and often counterintuitive speculations about one of the most important questions facing the world today. And he could hardly have known, when he set out to write it, that events would so accelerate the trends he was analyzing.

Joseph Kahn, The New York Times Book Review

A very forcefully written, lively book that is full of provocations and predictions

Fareed Zakaria, GPS, CNN

[A] compelling and thought-provoking analysis of global trends.... Jacques is a superb explainer of history and economics, tracing broad trends with insight and skill

Seth Faison, The Washington Post

The West hopes that wealth, globalization and political integration will turn China into a gentle giant... But Jacques says that this is a delusion. Time will not make China more Western; it will make the West, and the world, more Chinese

The Economist