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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I saw that guy on cctv here a day or 2 ago being
questioned about his book's sensational title suggesting something of the sort
of global tyranny that gives Hillary and her ilk goosebumps just imagining
it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>He admitted the bait-and-switch character of the
title was geared toward generating sales but claimed that "ruling the
world" has a softer meaning in American English since actually Ruling the World
escapes all who desire it, (even the Oligarchs of the USA?).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My comment is that China is like every "overnight
success". It takes years to become an overnight success, and it's still in
log phase. It aint yet 1955 in China relative to the rise and
decline s-curve of the USA. And hey, the US made a lot of tech advances
after 1955 even though it passed another inflection point in many ways about
that time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But anyone can be a China expert. I still
think Bill Holm is way out front,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and that Portuguese guy who travelled with Mateo
Ricci had a lot of astute observations that are still quite valid.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=galliher@illinois.edu href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">C. G.
Estabrook</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=peace-discuss@anti-war.net
href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">Peace-discuss</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 06, 2011 4:38
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Peace-discuss] China is
near</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Sinomania<BR>Perry Anderson<BR>LRB 32:2 · 28 January
2010<BR><BR>"...In the 19th century, Europe looked to America as the future,
if one still quite some way off. In the 21st century, the West looks towards
China in something of the same way. So far, certainly, no Tocqueville of the
East has appeared. Is what he once achieved repeatable? There is plenty of
time yet. But it is unlikely that <I>Democracy in America</I> will find its
successor, wherever else it might, in any <I>Modernity in
China</I>."<BR><BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n02/perry-anderson/sinomania">http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n02/perry-anderson/sinomania</A><BR><BR>...Ostensibly
this London Review of Books essay is simply an assessment of a few books,
including When China Rules the World, one of the most talked-about 2009
publications on the PRC. It is also, though, a thoughtful reflection on
long-term trends in Western thinking about China, highlighting the swings
between and occasional combining of “Sinophobia” and “Sinomania” (a term
Anderson uses where some others might use Sinophilia). Particularly astute is
the claim that When China Rules the World, despite its seemingly Sinophobic
title, has many passages that veer toward Sinomania. The same mix of concern
about and amazement at the country’s rapid rise can be seen in other recent
writings on the PRC, including Niall Ferguson’s late 2010 Wall Street Journal
op-ed “In China’s Orbit” and is likely to continue to influence publications
in the months to come...<BR><BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=3026">http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=3026</A><BR><BR><BR>
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