The China Wave
Douban
Rise of a Civilizational State
Weiwei Zhang
overview
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
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
