When China rules the world : the end of the western world and the birth of a new global order /
Martin Jacques.
- 2 ed.
- London : Penguin Books, 2012.
- xxxv, 812 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The changing of the guard -- |t The rise of the West -- |t Japan : modern but hardly western -- |t China's ignominy -- |t Contested modernity -- |t China as an economic superpower -- |t A civilization-state -- |t The Middle Kingdom mentality -- |t China's own backyard -- |t China as a rising global power -- |t When China rules the world -- |t Concluding remarks : the eight differences that define China.
Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.