American tianxia : Chinese money, American power, and the end of history / Salvatore Babones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babones, Salvatore J., author.

Series:

Policy Press shorts. Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

China.

Economic conditions.

China--Foreign relations--United States.

International relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--China.

Physical Description:

vi, 88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.

Summary:

After a meteoric rise, China's once inexorable growth has come to a screeching halt. With it ends China's dream of establishing a new tianxia ("harmonious order") in Asia with China at its center. Salvatore Babones provides an up-to-date assessment of China's economic problems and how they are undermining China's challenge to a Western-dominated world order. As China's neighbors and many of its own most talented people look to the United States to ensure their security and prosperity, global power is slowly but surely consolidating in a twenty-first-century American Tianxia. A closely argued antidote to defeatist accounts of Western decline, this book tells the story of how liberal individualism has become the leitmotif of an American Tianmia, an emerging world-system in which people of all nationalities seek a share in the economic, cultural, and political system that is America writ large. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Right concept wrong country 1

2 One master, one sovereign 19

3 One belt, one road to nowhere 37

4 The hiatus of history 55.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-82) and index.

ISBN:

1447336801

9781447336808

OCLC:

962008951