China Horizon, The: Glory And Dream Of A Civilizational State

by Weiwei Zhang

Overview

This is a book of China's own political narrative written by one of China's leading and best-known thinkers. It is the last part of the author's 'China Trilogy', which is a best-seller in China, with over one million copies sold. The book in itself is a centerpiece of the unfolding debate within China on the nature and future of the country and how it compares with the West. It addresses a hugely important issue of the day, i.e., in what way China is overtaking or may overtake the United States as the world's preeminent power. The author provides an original and thought-provoking study on how China has managed, through its own development model, to catch up and even surpass, to various extents, the United States, in terms of gross GDP, net household assets and social protection.The book elaborates on how China has engaged itself in reshaping its institutions to ensure its smooth rise, drawing on the strengths of its own traditions, socialist legacies and elements from the West. It analyzes the weakness of the Western political institutions and discusses how China has developed its own institutional edge over the West. The author argues that as a civilizational state, China has evolved a logic of its own for development and its own political discourse which questions seriously many Western assumptions about democracy, good governance and universal values.The book recaptures the essence of China's past glory and discusses the horizon of the Chinese dream as well as how China should meet the various challenges ahead. It offers a unique and original perspective on the future of this coming superpower. Like The China Wave, this book is both discerning and provocative, and serves as a required reading for everyone concerned with the rise of China and its global implications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938134739
Publisher:	World Century Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	06/24/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.42(d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition and Acknowledgments vii

About the Author xi

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1 From Catching-Up to Surpassing 1

1.1 "Going Abroad Makes One More Patriotic" 1

1.2 Sino-American Summit Revisited 8

1.3 Answering Zakaria's Question 14

1.4 A High-Quality Growth 18

1.5 The Relative Strengths of China and the United States 25

Chapter 2 From Myth to Truth 31

2.1 The Emperor's New Clothes? 31

2.2 What's Gone Wrong with the American Dream? 36

2.3 Reflections on the Western Model 41

2.4 Diagnosing the Western Institutional Weaknesses 45

2.5 The Three "Genetic Defects" 51

Chapter 3 Beyond the Western Institutions 57

3.1 A Memory of Deng Xiaoping and His China Model 57

3.2 The Logic of the China Model 66

3.3 Institutional Edge: Equilibrium of Three Powers 71

3.4 The Institutional Arrangements of a Civilizational State 75

Chapter 4 A New Political Discourse 89

4.1 Constructing the Chinese Discourse 89

4.2 My Talk on the China Model at Oxford 97

4.3 Universal Values or Universal Predicament? 104

4.4 From Arab Spring to China's Rise 108

Chapter 5 Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State 117

5.1 Glory: Yesterday and Today 117

5.2 The Horizon of the Chinese Dream 134

5.3 Three Aspects of the Chinese Dream 137

5.4 Overtaking: Some Ideas and Practices 144

Conclusion: The Logic of a Civilizational State 157

Index 167