China Incorporated

The Politics of a World Where China is Number One

Kerry Brown

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781350267244
• eBook ISBN: 9781350267251
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours? Here, one of the world's leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership - as they lay out a roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with the West. From how, and why, China as a dominant superpower has been inevitable for many years, to how the attempts to fight the old battles are over, Brown digs deeper into the problematic nature of China's current situation - its treatment of dissent, of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the severe limitations on its management of relations with other cultures and values. These issues impact the way the West sees China, China sees the West, and how both see themselves. There are obstacles to the West accepting a more prominent place for China in the world – but just because this will be a difficult process does not mean that it should not happen. As Kerry Brown writes: history is indeed ending, but not how the West thought it would.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• An Important Note on Terminology
• Introduction
• Chapter One The Three Key Things about China for the Modern World
• Chapter Two The Enigma of Chinese Power
• Chapter Three China and the Question of Values
• Chapter Four What Does the World Want from China?
• Chapter Five What Does China Want from the World?
• Chapter Six The Dark Side of Chinese Power
• Chapter Seven The Great Sepa ration – Part One
• Chapter Eight Making the Dual Track World Work
• Notes
• Suggested Further Reading
• Index
• Copyright