ISBN: 1592321739
Format: Paperpack
Price: $24.99

Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 15, 2009

Stand in the street of any Chinese city and one will inevitably face the 21st century phenomenon - the vibrating, pulsating and thriving China. The momentum of life that originated 5,000 year ago is steadily gaining speed and accelerates with great confidence into the future. The old Eastern civilization is rising again after a humble tumbling in the past 150 years.

Tons of analysis, books and reports are being produced daily, trying to expand the miraculous rise of China. These analysis, however, are far for providing good clues about the phenomenon. They either solely look back into the history or are too narrow-minded in explaining the Chinese economic and cultural revival today.

Some of the earlier efforts have been trying to focus on ideological and leadership changes. But since nothing dramatic has actually happened in that front, this approach seemingly faced a dead lock for now. Newer approaches apply observations on macro economic factors, such as China’s big domestic market, high volume of foreign investment, solid infrastructure, well-educated population, and sufficient but lower-cost human resources.

It’s agreed that macro-economic factors are keys for a country’s growth and development. But these factors alone seem still not unique or “niche” enough to explain the China phenomenon. It is true that foreign investment is a critical factor contributing to the China phenomena, but the question, “Why China?” still remains. Why has China attracted more foreign investment than most other countries?

There must be some inner factors below the surface activities that are much more worth exploring so we can better understand the rising China and the direction it is heading for. Even a lot of Chinese nationals may not be quite aware the inner factors behind their thinking and actions, instead they may just go with the aptitudes.

But the aptitudes and its inner factors, in my opinion, are really crucial for the world as well as China itself to understand. Seemingly it's not ideology, nor government, nor population, nor lower cost labor, etc. that make the difference. So what is it? What's China's niche? Where shall we look for explanation of the real reasons behind the phenomenal rise of China?

I firmly believe that the real strengths are rooted in the Chinese cultural mindset. The riches of thoughts and the ways of life of this five thousand year old Eastern civilization are now being effectively adapted to the demands of the twenty first century modern innovations. The heritage of the past and the vision for the future are creating unique dynamics that are inevitably moving China forward today. It’s all about dynamics. China’s rise in the 21st century is a process of restoration and adaptation of its ancient inner dynamics under new conditions.