Three Models of World History and Three Views on China: the Ideological, the Civilizational, and the Functional, Part I

1st Draft

Written by Bianxiangbianqiao, April 19, 2009

Foreword

Over the last year I have posted writings on various blog sites, mainly on my blog, but also on the Fool’s Mountain and the comment section in the blog of Richard Spencer, the Beijing correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. Most of those words were not worth revisiting. For the fraction that has contributed to my intellectual growth, I have been trying to build a structure to hold its pieces together. Two books have offered useful insights in this process, (1) the End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (1992) and (2) Clashes of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington (1996).

Thoughts on the Beijing Olympics II: What’s next?

August 15 is coming up. This will be the 63rd anniversary of Japan’s ending of World War II.