Kerry Brown: on What does the West Wants from China, and the Exercise of Chinese Power
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 A complete transcript of this podcast is available at sinica.substack.com. Join the community on Substack and get not only the transcript but lots of other writing and audio to boot! 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) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.