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When China Rules the World
- The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Categories: History, Asia
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Publisher's Summary
According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's ascendancy - for itself and the rest of the globe - have been surprisingly little explained or understood.
In this far-reaching and original investigation, Martin Jacques offers provocative answers to some of the most pressing questions about China's growing place on the world stage. Martin Jacques reveals, by elaborating on three historical truths, how China will seek to shape the world in its own image. The Chinese have a rich and long history as a civilization-state. Under the tributary system, outlying states paid tribute to the Middle Kingdom. Ninety-four percent of the population still believes they are one race - "Han Chinese." The strong sense of superiority rooted in China's history promises to resurface in 21st century China and in the process strengthen and further unify the country.
A culturally self-confident Asian giant with a billion-plus population, China will likely resist globalization as we know it. This exceptionalism will have powerful ramifications for the rest of the world and the United States in particular. As China is already emerging as the new center of the East Asian economy, the mantle of economic and, therefore, cultural relevance will in our lifetimes begin to pass from Manhattan and Paris to cities like Beijing and Shanghai. It is the American relationship with and attitude toward China, Jacques argues, that will determine whether the 21st century will be relatively peaceful or fraught with tension, instability, and danger.
When China Rules the World is the first book to fully conceive of and explain the upheaval that China's ascendance will cause and the realigned global power structure it will create.Critic Reviews
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- Anonymous User
- 15-02-2021
Narration is pretty bad
Sorry, i wanted a refund, this is really hard to listen.
Content is great though, but Scott Peterson did not fit this story; it is like a robot reciting lines,
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- Vince Cheng
- 21-01-2021
Great book
10 years on, many of the observations of this book have come to fruition. Great book.
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- Richard Fowler
- 11-06-2020
Propaganda
Some good points and interesting book but reading this book during COVID-19 it reads like an apologetics textbook for what the world now sees as a tyrannical regime. Granted it was written some years ago pre Trump and post Global Financial Crisis. It’s just not very balanced - for instance the author is quick to point out Western historical foibles but brushed over China’s. It should be updated to take account of China’s aggressive Belt and Road Strategy, the riots in Hong Kong and the economic warfare they have unleashed on countries that question their response to Covid. On the positive side the book presents interesting concepts for a Western reader to understand China from a non-Western paradigm, for example that China is a civilization rather than nation state.
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- Christopher Rossouw
- 02-10-2018
Great book but narration lacked
Jacques is a great scholar of China and has written a relevant (albeit now quite old) tome on China's rise and it's implications. Much of his expectations have come to reality.
Unfortunately, the narrator was unable to pronounce much of the Chinese language contained in the book which was unexpected and quite frustrating. He had a good voice otherwise.
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- David Blake
- 04-01-2010
Lucid explanation of global economic trends
Jacques' book's lucid prose and textbook explanations of global economic trends is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the rise of East Asia. Jacques focuses on China as he analyzes the rise of East Asia and the competing modernities of the 21st century.
Scott Peterson's narration is sped up and edited, which compresses the content for a faster listen. I enjoyed this. What I did not enjoy, however, is that Peterson made ZERO EFFORT to PRONOUNCE CHINESE, making most words unrecognizable. It would have taken Peterson maybe an extra hour of work to learn the fundamentals of pronunciation as Simon Vance did for his narration of Lost on Planet China. Peteron's lazy, ambiguous pronunciation will be extremely frustrating for anyone with even a cursory knowledge of China.
5 stars for solid content. 2 stars for sub-par narration and lazy pronunciation.
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- Chris Reich
- 27-04-2011
Excellent, Even Handed
I doubt I could be as even handed as this book. It really made me stop to consider the inevitability of China's rise to the top and how our acceptance of this or not will well determine our fate as Americans. Falling to second is never pleasant but it will happen and sooner than we think.
Will it be a soft landing or hard fall? Depends on whether can accept what is going to happen with grace.
Painful but very, very well expressed. I highly recommend this book.
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- 01011000
- 02-03-2010
Its gets better
This book is way too long and would have benefited greatly from the eye of an editor. First, they could have removed all references to the word "inconceivable" which would have reduced the length of the book by a good 10%. Removing duplicate sentences could have reduced it by a further 35%. Elimiating the inane anecdotes would have cut a further 15%. It would still have been a bit a long winded.
However for those willing to sit through the 16.5 hours, it is quite illuminating and in the 2nd half, things do start to come together in a compelling way.
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- DEXTER C. PHILLIP
- 17-04-2017
Find another narrator, please!
The narrators, voice, accent, rhythm, and miss pronunciations of words was quite irritating. I often wanted to turn them off or switch to another narrator. The book was well written and had a lot of great information theories history etc. I enjoyed the
book but not the narration.
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- Godfree Roberts
- 19-11-2016
Comprehensive and Gracefully Written
Martin Jacques manages to make a scholarly work not just readable but thoroughly enjoyable. Highly recommended as an introduction to modern China.
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- Fkrauss
- 25-09-2012
Great Audiobook
Great audiobook! It tells in every aspect one can imagine how the global geopolitc power is shifting from the west to the east, specially to China and how that affects the western way of life.
It is a required book to understand the current situation of the planet and many major discussions like climate, technology, entrepreneurship and specially, Democracy
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- Les
- 19-01-2010
Disappointing
This is an interesting topic, but the story is not told in an interesting or lively way. The author uses a lot of dubious statistics such as the GDP of China and India in the 18th and 19th century. These are both hard to take seriously and dull. Also, the cultural analysis about China, the US and Japan sound cliched and uninteresting.
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- EvaPhiletaWright
- 20-04-2020
poorly researched, badly read
First, that reader has no business reading a book full of foreign language names without learning the proper pronunciation of those names. This odd reading does, however, faithfully reflect the author's reliance on unreliable sources to pontificate on Asian countries he is largely unfamiliar with -- yes, there are superficial observations that are not always wrong, but there is too little depth of understanding. Yes, the book is full of pretend understanding drawn from logic rather than observation or in depth research, but logic never has created truth. This book is a good example of faulty conclusions drawn from other people's incorrect observations. It is unclear why Audible is entertaining such drivel.
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- Theresa Handrahan
- 26-03-2020
dry read with a lot of information
finished slogging through this monster. I picked it up at the outbreak of coronavirus is hoping to learn something about Chinese medical system. there wasn't much information on that topic but there was a huge amount of information about the rise of various Asian political structures. Probably interesting to people who like political history and everything Asian, but for me it was pure nerdy quest for information that I listened all the way through
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- T. Tsai
- 24-11-2019
Do your homework
So many mispronounced Chinese terms that it makes it hard to follow the narrator without a book. While I empathize that Chinese isn't the narrator's native tongue, the fact that they don't even sound close to the actual terms shows he didn't really do his homework (e.g. pronouncing the dynasty Qin as "chin" is passable but as "kin" is confusing). I don't think the author would approve as well.
The content by Jacques is great. Just buy the book and avoid the audible version
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- Loukas Christodoulou
- 06-05-2017
Good book, terrible narrator.
A book-length essay, arguing a very strong thesis. Undermined unfortunately by the robotic and bored narrator.
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- Russell
- 08-09-2010
Very disappointing
Thank goodness for audio books as I would not have read past the first chapter of this book. I was expecting the author to look at current events and the power shift in the world today but instead I got a turgid one sided history lesson which looked like it had been written by the Chinese elite. It seemed to suggest that because China once great in the past its destined to be great again. Its packed with figures and dates and a lot of other useless information that only academics could need. The author loads so much praise upon the Chinese that im amazed he is not a citizen, the only negative point the author could find to mention about the Chinese was that they are slighty racist. I doubt you will gain any real joy from reading this book and it certainly will not tell you anything about Chinas future, it will though inform you some of its past.
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- Don
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Great book to learn about China
The mainstream media information about China are superficial at best. This book helps to understand many aspects of China that goes much further than the shallow narratives we hear in the media.
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