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100			_aPoddar, Prem, and Sinha, Chris _931594
245			_aRe-imagining empire: ‘Great(ER) China’ and ‘global Britain’
260			_aSeminar
300			_a(743), Jul, 2021: p.47-52
520			_aTwo or three decades ago, it was commonly assumed by influential western intellectuals that a newly re-energized global capitalism would, through a process of modernization brought about by the creation of new markets in ‘emerging economies’, bring with it a convergence around the world of social systems, cultural norms and popular lifestyles. Modernity would increasingly have a common face, moulded in the image of western liberal democracy. Today we see this as wishful thinking. Although the narcissistic ‘West is Best’ narrative continues to be vigorously propagated by western think tanks and international institutions, it is increasingly threadbare and ever more explicitly contested. Nowhere is this contestation more evident than when it comes to China and the West. – Reproduced
773			_aSeminar
906			_aGREAT BRITAIN - FOREIGN RELATIONS - CHINA
942			_cAR