{"product_id":"when-china-rules-the-world-isbn-9780143118008","title":"When China Rules the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eGreatly revised  and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global  bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by  Chinese power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon, China  will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the first publication of  \u003ci\u003eWhen China Rules the World\u003c\/i\u003e, the  landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the  first edition was published, \u003ci\u003eWhen China  Rules the World\u003c\/i\u003e has proved to be a remarkably prescient book,  transforming the nature of the debate on China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in this greatly expanded and  fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up  by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on  conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be  as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know  it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2009 to  widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - \u003ci\u003eWhen China Rules the World: The End of the Western  World and the Birth of a New Global Order\u003c\/i\u003e has sold a quarter of a  million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major  literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED  talk.\u003c\/p\u003e\"Provocative...a fascinating account.\"—Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A very forcefully written, lively book that is full of provocations and predictions.”—Fareed Zakaria, \u003ci\u003eGPS, CNN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The West hopes that wealth, globalization and political integration will turn China into a gentle giant… But Jacques says that this is a delusion. Time will not make China more Western; it will make the West, and the world, more Chinese.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] exhaustive­, incisive exploration of possibilities that many people have barely begun to contemplate about a future dominated by China. ... [Jacques] has written a work of considerable erudition, with provocative and often counterintuitive speculations about one of the most important questions facing the world today. And he could hardly have known, when he set out to write it, that events would so accelerate the trends he was analyzing.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The rise of China may well prove to be the defining economic and geopolitical change of our time, and few authors have given the subject deeper thought, nor offered a more illuminating analysis, than Martin Jacques.”—Niall Ferguson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ascent of Money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] compelling and thought-provoking analysis of global trends.... Jacques is a superb explainer of history and economics, tracing broad trends with insight and skill.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This important book, deeply considered, full of historical understanding and realism, is about more than China. It is about a twenty-first-century world no longer modelled on and shaped by North Atlantic power, ideas and assumptions. I suspect it will be highly influential.”—Eric Hobsbawm, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Extremes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This an extremely impressive book, full of bold but credible predictions … [this] book will long be remembered for its foresight and insight.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Jacques\u003c\/b\u003e, a political journalist and scholar, is the coeditor and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Forward March or Labour Halted?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Thatcherism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304436715749,"sku":"NP9780143118008","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143118008.jpg?v=1767743949","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/when-china-rules-the-world-isbn-9780143118008","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}