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Subtitle: The End of the Western World and
the Birth of a New Global order, The Penguin Press, N.Y., 2009, 550 pgs.,
index, notes, maps, figures
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Reviewer Comment:
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1 The changing of the Guard
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I - The End of the Western World
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2 - The Rise of the West
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3 - Japan - Modern But Hardly Western
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4 - China's Ignominy
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5 - Contested Modernity
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II The Age of China
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6 - China as an Economic Superpower
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7 - A Civilization-State
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8 - The Middle Kingdom Mentality
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9=China's own Backyard
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10 - China as a Rising Global Power
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11 - When China Rules the World
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12 - Concluding Remarks: The Eight
Differences that Define China
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Appendix - The Overseas Chinese
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Guide to Further Reading
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