Clarissa Tan

China’s civilising mission

The world’s oldest civilisation feels ready to teach the West a thing or two

issue 30 June 2012

Last week, a distinguished Chinese thinker arrived in Oxford University to give a talk. His mission was audacious: to explain to Britain’s brightest young things that far from being a repressive or unhappy place, China is in fact pretty perfect. More to the point: now that Europe is on the rocks, China will be the next great world-shaping civilisation.

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