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The writing on the wall : China and the west in the 21st century / Will Hutton.
Publication details: London, England : Little, Brown., 2007.Description: xii, 436 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780349118826 (pbk.)
- China and the West in the 21st century
- China and the West in the Twenty-first century
- HC427.95 H979 2007 E183.8.C5 H8615
Contents:
Summary: The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st. century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of dauntig challenges from within that could well derail its rise and, iet turn, deliver a crippling shock to the global economy. Britain, Europe and the United States must recognise that they have a vital stake in assuring that collapse does not happen.
The last great powers -- Pride and fall -- Mao's bequest -- The odd couple : communism and capitalism -- The state they're in -- The economic impossibility of the halfway house -- The democratic graces -- The soft infrastructure of capitalism -- Of war and peace -- It's the enlightenment, stupid -- Born in the USA.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HC 427.95 H979 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 50235 |
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| HC 427.95 .D65 2003 Doing business with China / | HC 427.95 .F57 2005 China, Inc. : how the rise of the next superpower challenges America and the world / | HC 427.95 .H37 2004 Harvard business review on doing business in China. | HC 427.95 H979 2007 The writing on the wall : China and the west in the 21st century / | HC 427.95 .K96 2006 China shakes the world : a titan's breakneck rise and troubled future and the challenge for America / | HC 427.95 .K96 2006 China shakes the world : The rise of a hungry nation / | HC 427.95 .M34 2012 No ancient wisdom, no followers : the challenges of Chinese authoritarian capitalism / |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[400]-424) and index.
The last great powers -- Pride and fall -- Mao's bequest -- The odd couple : communism and capitalism -- The state they're in -- The economic impossibility of the halfway house -- The democratic graces -- The soft infrastructure of capitalism -- Of war and peace -- It's the enlightenment, stupid -- Born in the USA.
The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st. century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of dauntig challenges from within that could well derail its rise and, iet turn, deliver a crippling shock to the global economy. Britain, Europe and the United States must recognise that they have a vital stake in assuring that collapse does not happen.
Previous editions were published with a different subtitle "why we must embrace China as a partner or face it as an enemy".
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