When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of Western Civilization The US-China Institute presents a talk by Martin Jacques on his new book, which argues that the twenty-first century will be different with the rise of China and the end of Western dominance.

11/19/2009 4:00PM - 5:30PM
USC University Club, Banquet Room, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Cost: Free

　　马丁杰奎斯将在南加大美中研究院介绍他的新书，认为二十一世纪将以崛起的中国与西方的统治终结为结束。

09年11月19日下午4:00 -下午5时30分
南加州大学俱乐部，宴会厅，洛杉矶，加州90089
费用：免费

　　在过去200我们在西方制造的世界，同一个地方的概念是被现代生活了多年的代名词被西方。这本书认为，二十一世纪将是不同的：同日益强大兴盛的非西方国家相比，西方将不再是主体。在这个新时代的中心将是中国。

　　马丁雅克认为，中国被讨论得最多的是其已经具有深远的经济影响，但其政治和文化影响力，而到目前为止，被大大忽视。大陆占世界五分之一的人口，旧朝贡制度将重新以现代形式出现在传统地位的中心。中国的崛起标志着西部全球主导地位的结束和新世界的出现，它会塑造一个完全不同形象，而且会使那些生活在西部和对中国不熟悉的人越来越不安。

　　马丁雅克是一个访问学者，是经济，创意，国际，外交和大战略研究中心高级研究员伦敦学派，并在伦敦经济学院亚洲研究中心访问研究员。他是《新政治家专栏》作家。

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For over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern was synonymous with being western. The book argues that the twenty-first century will be different: with the rise of increasingly powerful non-Western countries, the west will no longer be dominant and there will be many ways of being modern. In this new era of ‘contested modernity’ the central player will be China.

Martin Jacques argues that far from becoming a western-style society, China will remain highly distinctive. It is already having a far-reaching and much-discussed economic impact, but its political and cultural influence, which has hitherto been greatly neglected, will be at least as significant. Continental in size and mentality, and accounting for one fifth of humanity, China is not even a conventional nation-state but a ‘civilization-state’ whose imperatives, priorities and values are quite different. As it rapidly reassumes its traditional place at the centre of East Asia, the old tributary system will resurface in a modern form, contemporary ideas of racial hierarchy will be redrawn and China’s ages-old sense of superiority will reassert itself. China’s rise signals the end of the global dominance of the west and the emergence of a world which it will come to shape in a host of different ways and which will become increasingly disconcerting and unfamiliar to those who live in the west.

Martin Jacques is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics, IDEAS, a centre for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy, and a visiting research fellow at the LSE’s Asia Research Centre. He is a columnist for the Guardian and the New Statesman.

What they say about When China Rules the World

"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

"Mr Jacques is right to argue that democracy, as patented by the west, is a product of European history, not a natural phenomenon." David Pilling, Financial Times

"Why China is what it is and what its destination will be are two eternal questions. I agree with Martin Jacques that culture is the key for understanding China. This is, without doubt, one of the best and most serious studies of China I have ever read – a fascinating book." Yu Yongding, former Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, People’s Bank of China.

"Jacques's book will provoke argument and is a tour de force across a host of disciplines... Jacques's arguments deserve to be heard; they are part of a debate the Western world should be having but for whatever reason - academic orthodoxy, political correctness or fear - has left for another time. By then, if Jacques is right, it will be too late." Mary Dejevsky, Independent

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