PETALING JAYA: For more than 200 years, the very notion of being modern has been synonymous with being Western.
As non-Western countries rise in stature, the West will no longer be dominant and there will be many ways of being modern, contends Martin Jacques, Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Renmin University in Beijing.
In this new era of “contested modernity,” the central player will be China, says Jacques, who will speak on “When China rules the world:
The rise of the Middle Kingdom and the end of the Western world” at Menara Star on Monday (Oct 5) at 11am.
He adds that China is a civilisation-state whose characteristics, attitudes and values predate its existence as a nation-state.
Jacques believes that China’s rise will change the world as we know it, from one made in the West to one increasingly shaped by China.
The public lecture is organised by Star Publications (M) Bhd and the Asian Centre for Media Studies.
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