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What role does China play in the Western imagination? The rise of China as an alternative model to Western liberalism has created a fear that developing countries will stray from Western standards of democracy, transparency, and human rights. However, such fears often say as much about those who hold them as they do about China itself. Who's Afraid of China? holds a mirror to Sino-Western relations in order to better understand how the West's own past, hopes, and fears shape the way it thinks about and engages with China. Focusing on three key areas -- models of development, soft power, and ethnocentrism -- this provocative new book argues that the rise of China touches a nerve in the Western psyche and presents a fundamental challenge to ideas about modernity, history, and international relations.
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''Who's Afraid of China?' provides a very solid answer to the puzzle of why there is international fear of China's rise. Both those advocating and opposing China threat theories will understand why neither of their arguments holds water after reading this book.'
--Yan Xuetong, Tsinghua University
'One need not agree with every aspect of Michael Barr's 'Whose Afraid of China' to benefit from his exploration of China's use of 'soft power' and its attempt to exploit the global information space. China's challenge in this dimension, its attempt to mis-position the West, to diminish Western values and appeal, reflect a maturing 'battle of ideas' about governance. Michael Barr offers interesting perspective on these dynamic questions. A good read for anyone concerned about governance, values and the increasingly informational dimension in which China increasingly challenges the West.' --Stefan Halper, University of Cambridge
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Michael D. Barr is Associate Professor in International Relations, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
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- PublisherZed Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1848135904
- ISBN 13 9781848135901
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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