China Wave Rise of a Civilizational State

Name: China Wave Rise of a Civilizational State
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ISBN: 9781938134012

ISBN-10: 193813401X

ISBN-13: 9781938134012

Edition: 2012

Authors: Wei-Wei Zhang, Weiwei Zhang

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* This is a best-seller in China and a geopolitical book for our times. As a leading thinker from China, Zhang Weiwei provides an original, comprehensive and engrossing study on the rise of China and its effective yet controversial model of development, and the book has become a centerpiece of an unfolding debate within China on the nature and future of the world's most populous nation and its possible global impact. China's rise, according to Zhang, is not the rise of an ordinary country, but the rise of a different type of country, a country sui gendre, a civilizational state, a new model of development and a new political discourse which indeed questions many of the Western assumptions…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: World Century Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 3/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface to the English Edition


Introduction



Not Misreading Oneself



A Fast-Changing World



The Unusual Ascent



Surpassing Japan



The GDP Paradox



To the Top



China's 1 + 1 > 2



The "Quasi-Developed Countries" within China



The Size of China's Middle Class



The "Emerging Economies" within China



Why China's 1 + 1 > 2?



The Rise of a Civilizational State



China's Rocky Path towards a Nation-State



The Rise of a Civilizational State



A New Perspective



Looking at China Afresh



The Rise of a Development Model



Reflections after the Crises



The China Model May Win Out



Shaping the Chinese Standards



The Rise of a New Political Discourse



Political Reform, the Chinese Way



Debating Human Rights



The Rise of a New Political Discourse



The End of the End of History



The Western Model: from India to Eastern Europe



The Western Model: East Asia and Beyond



Debating with Fukuyama: The End of the End of History


Index