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72
. ‘Chinese Language Fever Brings Opportunities and Harmony to the World’, 13 July 2006, posted on
http://english.people.com.cn
; Michael Vatikiotis, ‘The Soft Power of “Happy Chinese”’,
International Herald Tribune
, 18 January 2006.

73
. Joshua Kurlantzick,
Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 68-9.

74
. ‘Chicago Hub of Chinese Learning in US’,
China Daily
, 17 May 2006.

75
. Julian Borger, ‘America in “Critical Need” of Mandarin’,
Guardian Weekly
, 10-16 March 2006; ‘Demand for Chinese Language Courses in US Soars’,
China Daily
, 23 November 2005; ‘Mandarin Lessons for All - in UK School’,
Strait Times
, 21 January 2006; ‘The Future is . . . Mandarin’,
Guardian
, 6 April 2004; ‘Mandarin Learning Sours Outside China’, 29 July 2007, posted on
www.bloc.co.uk/news
.

76
. ‘English Today, Mandarin by 2020?’, September 2006, posted on
www.pbs
. org; ‘Beijing Sets Up Its Own Internet Domains’,
International Herald Tribune
, 21 March 2006.

77
. David Crystal,
English as a Global Language
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 113.

78
. Ibid., Chapter 1; p. 117.

79
. Posted on
www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007.

80
.
http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm
.

81
. Della Bradshaw, ‘Chinese Business Schools Move Up Rankings’,
Financial Times
, 31 October 2004.

82
. David Shambaugh, ‘China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order’,
International Security
, 29: 3 (Winter 2004/5), p. 78.

83
. ‘Students Again Make Beeline to US Colleges’, 5 April 2006, posted on
http://English.peopledaily.com.cn
.

84
. Howard W. French, ‘China Luring Scholars to Make Universities Great’,
New York Times
, 28 October 2008; Arian Eunjung Cha, ‘Opportunities in China Lure Scientists Home’,
Washington Post Foreign Service
, 20 February 2008.

85
. Xan Rice, ‘China’s Long March’,
Observer Sport Monthly
, 80 (October 2006).

86
. Michael Curtin,
Playing to the World’s Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), p. 3; also p. 10.

87
. Steve Rose, ‘The Great Fall of China’,
Guardian
, 1 August 2002; interview with Gong Li, ‘I Don’t Go to Hollywood. Hollywood Goes to China’,
Guardian
, 6 April 2007; David Barboza, ‘Made-in-China Blockbusters: Success that Can Sting’,
International Herald Tribune
, 29 June 2007; Mark Landler, ‘Pa per Tigers, Hidden Knockoffs Flood Market’,
International Herald Tribune
, 4 July 2001.

88
. See Gary Gang Xu,
Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema
(Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

89
. ‘KungFuBustle’,
China Business Weekly
, 14-20 November 2005.

90
. David Barboza, ‘At Christie’s Auction, New Records for Chinese Art’,
International Herald Tribune
, 29 November 2006; David Barboza, ‘In China’s New Revolution, Art Greets Capitalism’,
International Herald Tribune
, 4 January 2007; Jonathan Watts, ‘Once Hated, Now Fêted - Chinese Artists Come Out From Behind the Wall’,
Guardian
, 11 April 2007; Souren Melikian, ‘The Chinese Advance: More Bids, Many Buys’,
International Herald Tribune
, 8-9 April 2006.

91
. Kurlantzick,
Charm Offensive
, p. 63.

92
. David Barboza, ‘The Games Are Golden for Beijing Network’,
International Herald Tribune
, 23-24 August 2008.

93
. Edwin Heathcote, ‘Power Games’,
Financial Times
, 19 July 2008; Nicolai Ouroussoff, ‘Beijing Unveils a Landmark Olympics Stadium’,
International Herald Tribune
, 7 August 2008.

94
. Shi Jiangtao and Al Guo, ‘Clear View for the Games?’,
South China Morning Post
, 21 July 2008.

95
. Christopher Clarey, ‘Spectacle Has Viewers Floating on Air in Beijing’,
International Herald Tribune
, 9-10 August 2008.

96
. Pete Thamel, ‘Future of NBA Lies in China and Millions of Fans’,
International Herald Tribune
, 11 August 2008.

97
. Frank Ching, ‘Sport For All in China’,
South China Morning Post
, 8 September 2004; Rice, ‘China’s Long March’; Brook Larmer, ‘The Center of the World’,
Foreign Policy
, September-October 2005; Ian Whittell, ‘How a Small Step for Yao Can Become a Giant leap for China’,
The Times
, 10 February 2007; Chih-ming Wang, ‘Capitalizing the Big Man: Yao Ming, Asian America, and the China Global’,
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
, 5: 2 (2004).

98
. David Y. H. Wu and Sidney C. H. Cheung, eds,
The Globalization of Chinese Food
(London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), pp. 2-7; P. Y. Ho and F. P. Lisowski,
A Brief History of Chinese Medicine and Its Influence
(Singapore: World Scientific, 1998), p. 37.

99
. Wu and Cheung,
The Globalization of Chinese Food
, pp. 5-6.

100
. Ibid., pp. 10-11.

101
. Ibid., pp. 9-10.

102
. Ho and Lisowski,
A Brief History of Chinese Medicine
, pp. 52-3.

103
. Alok Jha, ‘Not Just a Bunch of Plant Extracts’,
Guardian
, 25 March 2004; Mure Dickie, ‘Chinese Traditional Medicine Gets a Dose of Modernisation’,
Financial Times
, 7 November 2003; ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine: Potions and Profits’,
The Economist
, 27 July 2002.

104
. ‘A Tough Sell for Western Drugs’,
International Herald Tribune
, 26 December 2007.

105
. Tony Blair’s premiership perhaps constituted the most extreme case of this.

106
. US National Intelligence Council,
Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World
(November 2008), p. xi; also pp. 1-2, 97.(Posted on
www.dni.gov/nic/N
IC
2025
project.html.)

107
. Robert Kagan, ‘The Case for a League of Democracies’,
Financial Times
, 13 May 2008; Gideon Rachman, ‘Why McCain’s Big Idea is a Bad Idea’,
Financial Times
, 5 May 2008.

1
. Paul A. Cohen,
Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), p. 95.

2
. Yan Xuetong, ‘The Rise of China in Chinese Eyes’,
Journal of Contemporary China
, 10:26 (2001), pp. 33-4.

3
. John King Fairbank, ed.,
The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968), p. 62.

4
. The Chinese have made this perfectly clear. See ‘Interview: Message from Wen’,
Financial Times
, 1 February 2009; ‘Wen Blames Crisis on Policy Mistakes’,
Financial Times
, 28 January 2009; ‘Wen and Putin Lecture Western Leaders’,
Financial Times
, 29 January 2009.

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Index

1911 Revolution

aerospace

Africa

overseas Chinese

Africans

agriculture

China

farming population in East Asia

Japan

shares of GDP

Air China

Airbus

aircraft market

American financial crisis
see
credit crunch

Amity and Cooperation, Treaty of

ancestral spirits

anti-Han riots, Lhasa

anti-Japanese demonstrations

art

ArtPrice ranking

ASEAN

ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)

ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)

Asia
see also
individual countries and regions

Asian Financial Crisis

Asian Monetary Fund

Asian tigers

characteristics of

democracy

rise of

Australia

authoritarianism

automobile market

autonomous regions

Bairoch, Paul

Balkanized system

banking system

barbarians

basketball

Bayly, Christopher

Beijing

Beijing Conventions

Beijing Olympics

Beijing summit (2006)

Benedict, Ruth

Bird’s Nest

Bo Yang

Boxer Uprising

Boyd, Robert

Brazil

Bretton Woods

British cuisine

Buddhism

bureaucratic elites

Bush administration

Bush, George W.

Callahan, William A.

car market

Carrefour

Caucasians

CCTV

century of humiliation

Chang, K.C.

Chen Kuan-Hsing

Chen Shui-bian

Chery

Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Mai Initiative

China Investment Corporation

Chinalco

Chinese attitude, to the world

Chinese citizens abroad

Chinese cuisine

Chinese diaspora
see also
overseas Chinese

Chinese firms
see also
state enterprises

Chinese hegemony

attitude to the world

culture

economy

geopolitical shifts

racial order

shared history

values and education

Chinese identity

civilization-state
see
civilization-state

as a continental system

as a developed and developing country

early emergence of

reinforced by foreign occupation

Chinese (language)

Mandarin

Chinese migration
see
overseas Chinese

Chinese modernity

emergence of

characteristics of

Chinese overseas direct investment

Chinese traditional medicine

Chow, Kai-wing

Christian Dior

Citic Securities

cities

citizenship, notion of

civilization-state

Cixi, Empress Dowager