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Während der letzten zweihundert Jahre war "modern" gleichzusetzen mit "westlich". Im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert wird sich dies ändern, die Bedeutung der asiatischen Länder steigt weltweit immer mehr und im Mittelpunkt dieser Veränderungen steht China. Das Staatensystem wie wir es kennen wird es in Zukunft nicht mehr geben. Dieses profunde und weitsichtige Buch erläutert zum ersten Mal die tiefere Bedeutung des Aufstiegs Chinas.

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Making predictions that China will supplant the west as an economic superpower, a cautionary analysis makes predictions about cultural, political, and ethnic changes facing the near future while evaluating China´s anti-globalization stance and dubious capacity for maintaining world peace.

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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.

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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

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