Book description
Soon China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become
more 'Western'.
Martin Jacques' groundbreaking book overturns conventional thinking
about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will not just be
economic, but cultural. As China's powerful civilization reasserts
itself, it will signal the end of the global dominance of the Western
nation-state, and the start of a future of 'contested modernity'.
This profound, far-sighted book explains for the first time the
deeper meaning of China's rise to power.
Martin Jacques is currently a visiting research fellow at the London
School of Economics Asia Research Centre. He has recently been a
visiting professor at Remnin University, Beijing, the International
Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University and at Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto, and was a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia
Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He was editor of
the highly respected journal
Marxism Today
until its closure in 1991. He was founder of the UK think-tank Demos,
has been a columnist for
The
Times
and the
Sunday Times
and was deputy editor of the
Independent
. He currently writes a regular column for the
Guardian.
He is the co-editor and co-author of
The Forward March of Labour Halted?
(1981),
The Politics of Thatcherism
(1983) and
New Times
(1989).
