{"product_id":"whos-afraid-of-china-doctor-michael-barr-9781848135901","title":"Who's Afraid of China?: The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat role does China play in the Western imagination? The rise of China as an alternative model to Western liberalism has created a fear that developing countries will stray from Western standards of democracy, transparency, and human rights. However, such fears often say as much about those who hold them as they do about China itself. \"Who's Afraid of China?\" holds a mirror to Sino-Western relations in order to better understand how the West's own past, hopes, and fears shape the way it thinks about and engages with China. Focusing on three key areas -- models of development, soft power, and ethnocentrism -- this provocative new book argues that the rise of China touches a nerve in the Western psyche and presents a fundamental challenge to ideas about modernity, history, and international relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Barr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848135904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848135901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Michael Barr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058395279615,"sku":"9781848135901","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5316868d-e115-4002-b847-5090e70b4354.jpg?v=1685052311","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whos-afraid-of-china-doctor-michael-barr-9781848135901","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}