Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 30 jan 2013

  Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

  Call for papers - Asia

  La Chine, une puissance mondiale

  XXIVe Festival international de géographie de Saint-Dié des Vosges

  Answering in 1885 to the emblematic French Prime Minister and Education Minister Jules Ferry, Geographer Elysée Reclus held the view that “The Chinese are not a negligible entity”. More that a century later, his assertion undoubtedly remains up to date. Not only because the Chinese people is the largest in the world with an around 1.4 billion population, but also because China, after being dismembered in various concessions by colonial powers during the “Century of Shame” ,and the traumas of the 50's, 60's and 70's under the Maoist regime, has now turned back to being a World Power. Some even go as far as talking of China-America as being the dominant partners of this 21st Century. But is it really so? Besides, what is a “Power” and what is a “World Power”?

  Read announcement