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Martin Jacques
Topic: Martin Jacques Book Talk - "When China Rules the World
Abstract
What will the rise of China mean for the world? So far it has overwhelmingly been debated in terms of China's economic impact. But
this is to hugely underestimate what China's arrival as a global power
will mean. The underlying assumption is that China will simply conform
to western-style arrangements and expectations, that as it modernizes it
will become a western-style society. This is western hubris. While China
has obviously learnt much from the West and will continue to, in crucial
respects it will remain very different. Chinese modernity will not mimic
western modernity. The rise of China will therefore transform the world
as we know it not only economically but also politically and culturally.
Biography
Martin Jacques is a visiting senior fellow at the LSE IDEAS, a centre
for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy,
and visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia
Research Centre. He has travelled extensively in East Asia over the past
fifteen years, lived in Hong Kong for three years, and has recently been
a visiting professor at Renmin University, Beijing, the International
Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University, and Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, and a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia
Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Before that he
was co-founder of the UK think-tank Demos and editor of the highly
influential journal Marxism Today until its closure in 1991. He has
been a columnist for The Times and the Sunday Times and deputy editor of
the Independent, and has written and presented many television programs
for the BBC. He now writes a regular column for the Guardian. He is
the co-editor and co-author of The Forward March of Labour Halted
(1981), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983), and New Times (1989).