The Great Convergence VS. The Great Divergence

Chinese Modernization Under Momentous World Changes
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-967845-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 285 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

This book explores what's happening in international affairs and whether the changes will bring opportunity or crisis to China's modernization. How can China reverse the trend of anti-globalization and lead a new wave of globalization? How can Chinese thinkers bring about another great convergence of globalization and modernization? In-depth thinking about these questions and answering them form the theme of this book. This book puts the main focus on clarifying the relationship between China’s modernization process and economic globalization, exploring the deep-seated reasons for the momentous world changes and the great challenges they haveposed to the China’s continued modernization. In particular, it answers the question “What is China’s next step?”, providing the readers with profound insights and forward-looking thinking to understand the changing situation of the world and grasp the future of China.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zheng, Yongnian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jin, Ping

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Formulation of Questions.- 2 Material, Institution and People: Three Coordinates of Modernization.- 3 Globalization and Modernization.- 4 Great Convergence: Hyper-Globalization and Modernization.- 5 China’s Modernization under Great Convergence.- 6 Transition from Hyper-Globalization to “Chaos of the World”.- 7 Globalization and the Crisis of Human Society.- 8 Great Divergence and Its Consequences.- 9 Evaluation of Great Divergence.- 10 China’s Resolve and Persistence.- 11 Opening up to Outside World and Continuing Globalization.- 12 Internal Reform and Continued Modernization.- Appendix 1 Status Quo, Trends and Prospects of Sino-US Relationship: How to Escape “Thucydides Trap”.- Appendix 2 The Prospects of Chinese Path to Modernization.- Appendix 3 Traditional Chinese Economics and Chinese Modernization.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Zheng Yongnian is a renowned Chinese political scientist and political commentator who has written widely on contemporary China and especially Chinese politics. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Beijing University and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He was a recipient of Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He currently serves as Presidential Chair Professor and the Founding Dean of School of Public Policy, and Funding Director of the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.