When China Rules the World

‘The rise of China may well prove to be the defining economic and geopolitical change of our time, and no British author has given the subject deeper thought, nor offered a more illuminating analysis, than Martin Jacques’ Niall Ferguson
‘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 and shaped by North Atlantic power, ideas and assumptions. I suspect it will be highly influential’ Eric Hobsbawm

Martin Jacques’s scholarship, perspective and experience in observing Asia are all manifested brilliantly in this book, which performs a valuable service to all who really want to understand China and anticipate world politics in the coming decades. It will be difficult to argue against his innovative central thesis that a modernizing and modernized China will keep her essential Chineseness in a new era of “contested modernity”’ Shi Yinhong, Professor of International Relations, Renmin University, Beijing

‘This is not simply a book about the rise of China, but about the many implications of China’s rise for the emerging world order and the way people all over the world live their lives. Martin Jacques has thought very deeply about this issue, and this far-sighted book gives us an important glimpse of the future’ Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore

‘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, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, former Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, former Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, People’s Bank of China, President of the China Society of World Economics

‘With so many first-hand and deep observations, Martin Jacques in his well-structured book shares his original insights everywhere with us. The book will deepen our understanding of, and debates upon, what is really going on in China and how China may contribute to and even reshape the world’
Huang Ping, Professor and Senior Fellow, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences