When China Rules The World : The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] Sharon Mazel ”—Phua Mei Pin

”—Phua Mei Pin

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When China Rules The World : The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] Sharon Mazel ”—Phua Mei PinChina 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