This book offers a non-conventional analysis of the possible outcomes from China's transformation and provides a dialectical understanding of the complexities and underlying dynamics brought about by the rise of modern-day China.

Contents: Introduction: the rise of China and the capitalist world order: the '4 China' nexus, Li Xing; The Eastern wind will not subside: China's long march back to the future?, Jacques Hersh; The myths and realities of the rising powers: is China a threat to the existing world order?, Mammo Muchie and Li Xing; China the international aid system: transformation or cooptation?, Paul Opoku-Mensah; The diaspora and the rise of nations: China and Africa compared, Li Xing and Paul Opoku-Mensah; Peak energy and the limits to economic growth: China and the world, Li Minqi; The transformation of China: the next between internalities and externalities, Li Xing; Chinese globalization: state strategies and their societal anchoring, Stig Thÿgersen and Clemens Stubbe Ã~stergaard; Why is the Chinese communist party able to sustain its hegemony in eras of great transformation?, Li Xing and Peer Mÿller Christensen; Index.