Will the ‘Chinese Path to Modernization’ Lead to Global Divergence?
Advertisement With the decline and eventual collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world hurriedly embraced Western liberal democracy as the “final form of human government.” However, John Fairbank, a renowned historian of China at Harvard, contested this prevailing “end-of-story” narrative, asserting that “no foreign model could fit the Chinese situation.” He believed that … Read more