A book authored by British author Martin Jacques which has just been released late last year has evoked much debate and controversy around the globe.
In particular, this book posits many perceptive thoughts which question and dispute the heretofore European-Western orthodoxy about democracy, human rights (Europeanized defined; and look at China's emergence as a counterfoil to Western hegemonistic hold in the world of ideas, politics, and culture.
Let's debate the contents of this book.
Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred ideas contend.
A small flicker may light a prairie fire. Without a doubt, the re-emergence of China in the world stage ushers an era whereby a sense of direction, and that big over-arching vision of where and how the Chinese people are going to pursue modernization and to what extent should this process incorporate Western values and embodies Western culture, with its good and bad.
For an Amazon.com link to Martin Jacques' book, click on the link below:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=when+china+rules+the+world&sprefix=When+China
Click on the hyperlink below for the link to Bevin Chu's "China Desk."
Bevin Chu's blog sets forth a brief intro to Martin Jacques' book, and you are invited to post your comments and thoughts if you wish to debate and sound off on the subject:
http://thechinadesk.blogspot.com/2010/01/when-china-rules-world.html
