{"id":133182,"date":"2012-03-11T22:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T05:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=133182"},"modified":"2012-03-11T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T05:46:10","slug":"niall-ferguson-chinas-got-the-whole-world-in-its-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/03\/niall-ferguson-chinas-got-the-whole-world-in-its-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Ferguson: China’s Got the Whole World in its Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controversial<\/a> historian Niall Ferguson, who co-coined the term Chimerica<\/a> to describe the symbiotic relationship between China and the U.S., has produced a three-part series on China for Channel 4. The Telegraph interviews Ferguson about his views on China’s rise<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

At his Harvard base last week, he discussed a resurgent Chinese nationalism that \u201cis almost intimidating in its intensity\u201d as the world undergoes a shift of financial and political power from West to East.<\/p>\n

It was a strain that he first identified from the reaction of his own Chinese students to US coverage of the Tibet protests. \u201cThey were very hostile to the criticism of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key insight for me is that rather than pro-democracy feelings increasing as China grows economically, it is a radical, shrill nationalism that is emerging.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t just the young. For the new three-part series, he also found among older Chinese a growing \u201cMaostalgia\u201d, a nostalgia for the era of Mao Tse-tung. In Western eyes, Chairman Mao is strongly associated with the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, but for many Chinese, he is the father of a modern, booming nation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See a video of Ferguson discussing the concept of Chimerica:
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