"Provocative...a fascinating account." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this prodigiously researched and far-reaching book, Martin Jacques presents a groundbreaking look at how China's economic ascendancy will alter the balance of global power. Drawing extensively on Chinese history, he reveals how an increasingly powerful China will seek to shape the world in its own image: the old tributary system will resurface in a modern form, contemporary ideas of racial hierarchy will reassert itself. When China Rules the Worldis the first book to explain how China's meteoric rise will extend far beyond the economic realm, unseating the West and creating an entirely new global order.