14 May MMXX
On the back jacket cover there is this blurb written by Professor Shi Yinhong, Professor of International Relations, Renmin University, Beijing, China:
"Martin Jacques's scholarship, perspective, and experience in observing Asia are all manifested brilliantly in this book, that performs a very valuable service to all who really want to understand China and anticipate world politics in the coming decades. It will be difficult to argue against his innovative central thesis that a modernizing and modernized China will keep her essential Chineseness in a new era of 'contested modernity.'"