China Incorporated
Book description
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…
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2 authors picked China Incorporated as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Kerry Brown is a "must read" on China at a time when so much of what we get is crassly pro- or anti-China. Brown knows the country best than most and has a thoroughly realistic and nuanced view on what the country under Xi Jinping means to the rest of the world. Highly recommended.
There is so much hostility to China across the Western government-media landscape that it is gratifying to find a British diplomat break from the suffocating consensus and acknowledge that many of China’s faults and sins are not all that different from those of their accusers and that there is virtue and value in some of their practices and policies.
It is also refreshing to find someone working in the modern field paying attention to the traditional aspects of Chinese culture, as I myself have (translating various classics). Having taught Chinese language and Asian history in university for 50+ years I…
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