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Full Record Check this checkbox to mark or unmark the current record AUTHOR Jacques, Martin. TITLE When China rules the world : the end of the Western world and the birth of a new global order / Martin Jacques. EDITION 2nd ed. IMPRINT London : Penguin, 2012. DESCRIPTION xxxv, 812 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. NOTE Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2009. NOTE Includes bibliographical references (p. 736-776) and index. CONTENT NOTE The changing of the guard -- The rise of the West -- Japan : modern but hardly western -- China's ignominy - - Contested modernity -- China as an economic superpower -- A civilization-state -- The Middle Kingdom mentality -- China's own backyard -- China as a rising global power -- When China rules the world -- Concluding remarks : the eight differences that define China. SUMMARY 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. SUBJECT Globalization -- Economic aspects -- China. SUBJECT China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-. SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- 1976-. SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- Western countries. SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 2002-. SUBJECT Western countries -- Foreign relations -- China. DISCIPLINE Economics. DISCIPLINE Liberal Studies -- Hong Kong Today. DISCIPLINE World History. ISBN 9780140276046. Location Call Number Status Teachers' Reference Collection 327.51 JAC c.2 Available 在館