当中国统治世界读后感

Reflections after reading WHEN CHINA RULES THE WORLD

学号：14041032 姓名：苏雨

Nowadays, I read a very interesting book named When China rules the world. This book is written by famous English writer Martin Jacques. This book mainly talks about the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the western world. After reading this book, I learn a lot and have many reflections of this book.

As far as I know,When China rules the world astonished the whole world. Before it was published, it absorbed the attention of the western media. Everybody wandered if the China can truly rule the world, and what makes the China rule the world.

This book is not just describing the rise of China, but also describes the trend of the world. The writer closely investigates the history of China and other western countries, and delivers many suggestive analyses about the development of China.

When China rules the world makes it clear that China will never follow the process of western countries’ democratization. Instead, China will find a completely different way of development. It seems that the developing of China will not only change the world’s economic pattern, but also change the way we thinking and living.

The author summarizes many differences between the development of China and western countries in a very special view, which compose the logic framework of the book.

Though his analysis of eastern culture may not be very precise, this book can make the western people know more about China with respect. What’s more reading this book can help us know ourselves better in foreign people’s angle. Only in this way can we find the problems in our country. Because the author of this book is very interested about the history of east Asia, he wrote this important book. In this book, he analyzes the rising and falling of the western countries and China closely. In this book he discusses how China will deal with the relationships among huge countries when China rules the world. In addition, the author thinks that it will be a long and tough road to go before China ruling the world. Therefore, Chinese people have a lot of effort to pay.

Since the October 1949 when the People’s Republic of China was founded, great changes have taken place in China. Our country becomes strong and powerful; our people lead a happier life. However, there are still many tough problems we have to solve. The gap between poor and rich people is widen. What’s worse, our environment is being polluted by ourselves just because we need develop our economic. The problems that are carried out

in this book are real and we can’t avoid facing them. From my angle alone, whether China can rule the world, we should spare no effort to solve these problems and make contribution to our country.

In my opinion, the value of this book is that this book shows the world a brand new China which not only has long history but also have various and splendid culture as well. Anyone who has read this book will have a better known about China. Though the name of this book exaggerates the power of the China, the content of the book is very interesting and fascinating. It will make us excited when we see a foreign author using a very special way to talk about our country.

At the first of the book, the author analyses the rise of the western world and the fall of China. Since the 18 century, because China continue walked in the old steps a nd didn’t bring forth new ideas, western world exceed the China gradually. For China, too many people make develop harder, what’s worse, because the government of China didn’t want to communicate with outside world and exaggerate its own power, we miss many good opportunities to develop its own economic and science. At the medium of 19th century, the Industrial Revolution in the western world broadens the gap between China and western countries. From my angle alone, the ignorance of the economic and education growing is the main reason that made China fall behind. During the 1839 to 1842,Opium War brought the opium to China, which completely destroyed the Chinese government. The domain of China was craved up by invaders, the wealth was grabbed by other countries.

Then the author talks about the rise of USA and Japan. I think we can learn much from the development of both countries. The citizens of America have an open mind and they absorbed the knowledge from other leaders of the world. The society of America was full of passion and creativity. Because it didn’t have enough labor force, they used the machines extensively which was good at rising the productivity and developing the economic. In a word, I think the key to USA rise lies in its enlightened attitude towards the new things.

When it comes to Japan, I learned that Japan is the first country which accepted modernization on its own. Adjusting to the western culture and learned from developed countries is an undeniable wise choice the Japanese government made. In conclusion, if China wants to become stronger and narrow the gap between western world and itself, the key is to develop an open mind and learn from other strong countries. Only in this way, I think, can we grow up as fast as possible.

After talking about the America and Japan, the author describes the history of China. Ancient China was strong and powerful. Though it was invaded by other tribes, Chinese and Chinese culture didn’t die out, instead, it influenced other countries and was widely spread. On this condition, Chinese people took their language and culture more seriously

and tried their best to protect them. In my opinion, that may be the reason why China still exists till now. The emperors of China were very wise. They introduced a great deal of advanced cultivation technology as well as new types of crops. These behaviors push the ancient China to the top of the world. What’s more, they encouraged the people to invent new things that were helpful to daily life. Consequently, China gained the most advantage technologies in the world. Because of the reasons mentioned above, the population of China grew very fast and the domain of China was expanded. The connection between China and other countries was inseparable, the production from China was sold all over the world. To our disappointed, this thriving and prosperous situation didn’t last forever. After 12th century, the developing progress of China slowed down and finally stopped. The dropped in economic and the lessened communication with other countries made China continue walk in the old steps. In Ming Dynasty, the emperor even prohibited Chinese people make deal with foreign people.

In the 19th century, China was the richest countries among the world. However, its science technology and military power were much weaker than western countries such as England and France. As the result, many problems occurred suddenly that broke the seemingly peaceful life of Qing Dynasty .The Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded the BeiJing and forced Qing government to sign many unfair treaties. After these severe disasters, the power and economic strength were weakened. Until 1949 a brand new China was born.

When China rules the world contains a great amount of important data and the discussion of this book seems reasonable. The whole book is divided into two parts and contains 10 chapters. The first 4 chapters consist of the part one of this book which describes the end of the world ruled by western countries, and the last 6 chapters consist of the part two of this book which describes the coming of the world under the control of China. The author doesn’t just focus his attention on the economic field, especially doesn’t just focus on the western world’s economic development, instead, he pays attention to the development of the history as well as the particularity of Chinese society.

What really impressed me in this book is that the author tries to prove that the economic development of China cannot move on by using a great amount of data and examples. Although I don’t agree with this idea carried out by the book, I think we should pay attention to the problems the author mentioned. In contrast to other developing countries, China is suspected by western developed countries. Therefore, the development of China is disturbed by other countries consequently. In a word, China doesn’t have a very good environment to grow and develop, what’s worse, China didn’t

create enough space to expand its own enterprises. Another problem is that China has too many people and nature resource seems not enough to support a country with such big population. In order to develop the economic as quick as possible, Chinese people destroy their own homeland and pollute the environment.

From the examples delivered by author above, we can clearly know that China is faced with many troubles when developing which we should pay fully attention to. Regardless of the disadvantages of the China growing, Martin Jacques is also interested in the huge progress that China has made. In this book, he carries out many opinions supporting that China will become the leader of the world sooner or later. Nowadays China becomes stronger and stronger. The connection between China and other countries is strengthened, and the culture of China is separated all over the world. Now that China is faced with many problems in developing, what we do to solve these severe problems? According to the author, in order to decrease the pollution and save the precious energy, Chinese government spend a great amount of money to find more clean energy such as solar energy and nuclear energy. What’s more, the government of China spares no effort to limit the carbon emission by limiting the use of private cars. These solutions are useful because the air condition of China is getting better now and the pollution of environment is under control. It’s undeniable that MADE IN CHINA represents bad quality as well as low grade now. In this condition, the production from China can only be sold in low price. However, this condition is changing now. China pay attention to science development now, and its scientist level is getting closer to the top of the world.

Thanks to this book, I not only enrich my knowledge but also enlarge my horizon as well. From this book, I know more about the history of China as well as other developed countries. I also know more about the perspective of China in western people’s mind. It is this book that teaches me to introspect my country and myself. This book impressed the western world and showed them a new China as well. The author let the Chinese people know the future of China. Last but not least, this book pointed out the question the China faced now and what Chinese people can do to solve these questions.

After reading this book, I know that if China wants to become stronger as soon as possible, the first thing we should do is to have an open mind and try our best to learn the useful strategies to development from western countries. Second, we should pay attention to the education and science. Because education can make people wiser, only in this way can we use our knowledge to solve the problems slow the development of China. It is an undeniable truth that the science can promote the economic development. Third, we should keep it in our mind that we should not develop our environment by destroying our environment. It is of vital importance to

discover new source of energy. Forth, we must protect our culture. We should know that if China wants to rule the world, we must let other countries accept our culture, so we should not lost it when developing. Last but not least, Chinese people must hold together with each other. The harmony of society is precondition of the economic development.

老师您好！这篇论文是我认真阅读完《当中国统治世界》后用英文一个词一个词敲出来的，虽然字数不多，但倾注了我的心血。如果文中有错误或不妥之处，请您见谅！