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
generis, a civilizational state, a new model of development and a new
political discourse which indeed questions many of the Western
assumptions about democracy, good governance and human rights. The book
is as analytical as it is provocative, and should be required reading
for everyone concerned with the rise of China and its global
implications. Contents:
- 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
