My Academic Story with China | Martin Jacques: Without understanding China, many questions simply cannot be answered

BEIJING, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from Global Times:

【Martin Jacques, renowned British author and critic】

China Studies implies a kind of coherent whole. This is studies about China. Because of China’s rise, because how important it is in so many sectors now, you can’t really answer a lot of questions without knowing something about China. So I think that is already a big change that’s taking place.

And I would only encourage that because it makes the whole thing more accessible. So I think that is the way in which I see China studies moving more “hybrid.”

And the other aspect is, I think, until now, there have been really two centers of China Studies, geographically. One is obviously China, and the other is the West. They made a lot of running in these areas. So, very few of the criticisms that you find of China flow from the Global South, because that’s completely different.

So I think that changing minds is not easy as we can see. I would say it’s a progressive thing. It takes time. The younger people probably more likely to shift. But it depends on the generation, depends on what’s happening in the world.

My Academic Story with China | Martin Jacques: Without understanding China, many questions simply cannot be answered

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