The historical resources of China's model: Relevance to the present

In: Human affairs: HA ; postdisciplinary humanities & social sciences quarterly, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 134-145

Abstract

Abstract
The article focuses on the historical resources of the China's model. Understanding the model is one of necessary preconditions of an analysis of China's dynamic rise and development in recent decades. First, the article analyses the concept of historical development of multiple civilisations and modernities. It then examines the characteristics of China's old civilisation and the associated model. It ends by showing how the historical Silk Road lives on in an updated modernised global version.