Martin Jacques

The 2nd World Conference on China Studies is now unfolding in Shanghai. In the new series Global Scholars on China Studies, British scholar in international relations and politics, Martin Jacques, shared with us his views on why the West keeps getting China wrong and how China, as both a nation-state and civilization-state, is blazing a… Continue reading

“The story of modernization is essentially a western story. It starts with the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the 19th century. By as late as 1945, modernity and development was an exclusively western story, apart from Japan.

The west, and Japan, used modernization against the rest of the world. … Continue reading