{"id":1657,"date":"2010-02-12T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:16","slug":"china-rises-china-wakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/02\/china-rises-china-wakes\/","title":{"rendered":"China Rises? China Wakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Beware of China, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2008\/03\/five-things-that-didn%E2%80%99t-happen-but-might-have\/\">when the dragon wakes<\/a> she will shake the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Napoleon? Although there&#8217;s no evidence that he ever said it, the quote caught the essence of what westerners thought <em>should <\/em>be the case and has been endlessly recycled.<\/p>\n<p>But over the last decade a lot of\u00a0 loose talk about &#8220;China Rising&#8221; has been going around, getting more intense in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>History News Network has a collection of recent posts gathered from the internet, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hnn.us\/articles\/122921.html\">HNN Hot Topics: China Rising<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>China Beat<\/em>, our second most favorite blog (after this one) has run a powerful set of pieces on &#8220;Big China&#8221; books, that is, books that loudly hail or bemoan China&#8217;s rise or menace. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, has roundup, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechinabeat.org\/?p=1408\">Six Takes on Martin Jacques<\/a>,&#8221; a follow up to his piece in <em>Time Magazine<\/em> online blog (Feb 8, 2010), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1957393,00.html\">Big China Books: Enough of the Big Picture<\/a>.&#8221; Jeff skewers the Olympic scale conclusion jumping in a gaggle of these books, especially Martin Jacques, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/When-China-Rules-the-World\/Martin-Jacques\/e\/9781594201851\/?itm=1&amp;usri=MArtin+Jacques\">When\u00a0 China Rules the World : The End of the Western World and the Birth of a\u00a0 New Global Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The China Beat piece also points out another recent well informed and provocative piece, Richard Rigby&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastasiaforum.org\/2010\/02\/07\/the-challenge-of-china\/\">The Challenge of China<\/a>&#8221; at East Asia Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Beware of China, for when the dragon wakes she will shake the world.&#8221; Napoleon? Although there&#8217;s no evidence that he ever said it, the quote caught the essence of what westerners thought should be the case and has been endlessly recycled. But over the last decade a lot of\u00a0 loose talk about &#8220;China Rising&#8221; has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,112,119,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-current-events","category-english","category-foreign-views"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-qJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}