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Superpower Interrupted - The Chinese History of the World (Paperback)
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Superpower Interrupted - The Chinese History of the World (Paperback)
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Loot Price R532
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This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant
and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the
world, especially the drive to Make China Great Again. We in the
West routinely ask: What does China want? The answer is quite
simple: the superpower status it always had, but briefly lost. In
this colorful, informative story filled with fascinating
characters, epic battles, influential thinkers, and decisive
moments, we come to understand how the Chinese view their own
history and how its narrative is distinctly different from that of
Western civilization. More important, we come to see how this
unique Chinese history of the world shapes China's economic policy,
attitude toward the United States and the rest of the world,
relations with its neighbors, positions on democracy and human
rights, and notions of good government. As the Chinese see it, for
as far back as anyone can remember, China had the richest economy,
the strongest military, and the most advanced philosophy, culture,
and technology. The collision with the West knocked China's
historical narrative off course for the first time, as its
5,000-year reign as an unrivaled superpower came to an ignominious
end. Ever since, the Chinese have licked their wounds and fixated
on returning their country to its former greatness, restoring the
Chinese version of its place in the world as they had always known
it. For the Chinese, the question was never if they could reclaim
their former dominant position in the world, but when.
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