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By Doctor Michael Barr

If China abruptly democratised, wouldn't it stop being labelled as a hazard? This provocative ebook argues that fears of China frequently say as a lot approximately those that carry them as they do concerning the emerging energy itself. It focuses now not at the traditional trope of financial and army may perhaps, yet on China's turning out to be cultural impact and the connections among China's household politics and its makes an attempt to model itself across the world. utilizing examples from movie, schooling, media, politics, and artwork, who is petrified of China? is either an creation to chinese language gentle energy and a severe research of foreign response to it. It examines how the West's personal prior, hopes, and fears form how it thinks approximately and engages with China and argues that the emerging energy touches a nerve within the Western psyche, proposing a basic problem to principles approximately modernity, historical past, and overseas relations.

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