Shandong province
Shanghai
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
Shanghai Electric
Shanghai Five
Shenzhen
Shi Yinhong
Shimonoseki, Treaty of
Shintaro, Ishihara
ships
Sichuan province
Singapore
Sino-Japanese War
Sinocentrism see Middle Kingdom mentality
skin colour
Smith, Adam
Song dynasty (AD 960-1279)
South Asia
South China Sea
South-East Asia see also ASEAN
South Korea
farming population
identity
Mandarin learning
Students in China
urban population
sovereign wealth funds
Soviet Union
special economic zones
sports
Spratly and Paracel islands
state enterprises
state sovereignty
Steel, Valerie
steppe nomads
Su Xiaokang
suffrage
Sugihara, Kaoru
suicide
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Zi
superstitious customs
surveillance system
sustainability, of growth
Taipei
Taiping Uprising
Taiwan
China’s attitude to
farming population
modernity
public opinion
superstitious customs
Taiwanese identity
urban population
Tang, David
Tang dynasty (618–907)
Tang Shiping
Taoism
Tata Nano
tax reforms
TCL
tea culture
technocratic class
technology transfer
Temasek Holdings
tennis
Terracotta Army
territorial expansion
terrorism
Thailand
Therborn, Göran
Tianjin, Treaty of
Tibet
‘time-compression societies’
Tokugawa era
Tokyo (former Edo)
tolerance
tourism
trade unions
Treaty of Nanjing
tributary system
Tu Wei-ming
Tung Chee-hwa
UN peacekeeping operations, Chinese troops
unequal treaties
United Kingdom
and China
colonization
decline of
industrial employment
Industrial Revolution
Mandarin teaching
overseas Chinese
racism
share of world population
urban population
United States
and Africa
and Australia
and China
colonized/colonies
decline
and East Asia
economic strength
and Europe
foreign policies
hegemony
human rights debate
importation of investment
and India
industrial employment
insularity
and the international system
and Japan
Mandarin teaching
and Middle East
overseas Chinese
population
rise of
self perception
understanding of
universities
United States Africa Command
unity
universalism
universities
urban population
urbanization
US dollar
US National Intelligence Council report
US Treasury bonds
values
Veriah, Harinder
Vietnam
Vietnamese (language)
village election
Wang Gungwu
Wang Xiaodong
war on terror
waterway systems
Wen Jiabao
Wen Yudio
the West
concept of
decline of
and the developing world
share of world population
view on Asia modernity
view on China
Westernization
food
language
physical appearance
politics and power
Westphalian system
wet rice farming
Wolferen, Karel van
Wong Bin
workplace
World Bank
world history
writing system
WTO
Xinjiang
Xu Zongheng
Xuchang Man
Yan Xuetong
Yang Qingqing
Yangzi Delta
Yangzi river
Yasukuni Shrine
Yellow Emperor (Huang Di)
yellow races
Yoshino, Kosaku
Yu Yongding
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
Yuan Shih-kai
Yukichi, Fukuzawa
Zambia
Zhang Qingli
Zhang Taiyan
Zhang Wei-Wei
Zhang Xiaogang
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yin
Zhang Yunling
Zhang Zhidong
Zhao Suisheng
Zhao Ziyang
Zheng He
zhongguo
Zhou dynasty (1100-256 BC)
Zhou Enlai
Zhu Feng
Zhu Rongji
Zi Zhongyun
Zimbabwe
About the Author
Martin Jacques is currently a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. He has recently been a visiting professor at Remnin University, Beijing, the International Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University and at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, and was a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He was editor of the highly respected journal Marxism Today until its closure in 1991. He was founder of the UK think-tank Demos, has been a columnist for The Times and the Sunday Times and was deputy editor of the Independent. He currently writes a regular column for the Guardian. He is the co-editor and co-author of The Forward March of Labour Halted? (1981), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983) and New Times (1989).
