Goodbye Sinophobia, hello China model

Sinophobia does exist in history and today. In history, foreign powers demonized China as the so-called “yellow peril." In the 20th century, anti-Chinese sentiment was caused by the rise of People’s Republic of China after the civil war, the political chaos in Mao’s era and after 1978, by the unprecedented successful combination of economic development with China’s unique political system. In sum, the uniqueness of China and Chinese culture and the (I think here you need either “the world’s” or “general” lack of knowledge about China are the main reasons why sinophobia exists in the contemporary world.[More]