China and the West : Crossroads of Civilisation.
Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global warming, inequality, concentration of business power...
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Routledge,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; Notes; PART I: China and the West over the long term; 1. Convergence and divergence in the long-run development of China and the West; Introduction; The first convergence; The first divergence; The second divergence; The second convergence; Conclusion; Notes; 2. How China sees the West; Introduction; Unity and disunity; Political system; Balance; External expansion; Religion; Militarism; Innovation; Nationalism; Communism; Conclusion; Notes.
- PART II: The two-edged sword of capitalist globalizationIntroduction; Notes; 3. The rationality of capitalism; Introduction; Market competition and innovation before the Industrial Revolution; Market competition and innovation since the Industrial Revolution; Financial market liberalization and development; Capitalism and the expansion of human freedom; Notes; 4. The irrationality of capitalism; Introduction; The environment; The global business revolution; Inequality; Finance; Conclusion; Notes; PART III: The Communist Party of China, parliamentary democracy and the Ancien Régime.
- 5. The Communist Party of China and parliamentary democracyIntroduction; How China views parliamentary democracy; Conclusion; Notes; 6. The Communist Party of China and the; Introduction; Russia; China; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.