Abstract
Discussing the topics and assumptions in When China Rules the World, this paper argues for three points. Firstly, there are three modernity modes: the Western modernity represented by European countries and the US and depending on colonization, the autonomous modernity related with the former USSR and China, and the dependent modernity of East Asian tigers characterized by joining the Western industrial division and offering laboring force. Secondly, the hotly-debated Chinese model is actually the combination if not culmination of the East Asian modernity. It will not be sustainable due to a series of economic and political problems and needs to be transformed. Thirdly, the world is currently on the eve of fundamental change. The decline of the world hegemony may reshape the way of human development and modernization in last 100 years. A state of ‘equilibrium’ must be reached, by means of a global socialism having divorced Stalinism.
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