This week on the Sinica Podcast, a show taped in Salzburg, Austria, at the Salzburg Global Seminar with Kerry Brown of King's College, London, on the prolific author's latest book, China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One.
05:22 – Chinese worldview and historical perceptions
07:51 – The unease with China's rise
10:42 – Chinese exceptionalism vs. Western universalism
17:30 – Parallels between American domestic unease and perceptions of China
22:27 – Discussion on China's competing belief system
33:56 – China's raw form of capitalism
40:36 – What the West wants from China
46:10 – The internet as a reflection of Chinese power and limitations
51:17 – China's syncretism and its impact today
55:00 – The narrative of Chinese success and its PR challenges
1:05:32 – Revising Western narratives on China's development
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Recommendations:
Kerry: Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel
Kaiser: Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China by Jin Xu; and re-reading Hilary Mantel's masterful Wolf Hall trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light)
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