TY - BOOK AU - BARR Michael TI - Who's afraid of China?: the challenge of Chinese soft power SN - 9781848135901 (pbk.) : PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Zed books KW - CIVILIZATION, WESTERN KW - 21TH CENTURY KW - COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT KW - CHINA KW - CIVILIZATION KW - 2002- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - What role does China play in the Western imagination? The rise of China as an alternative model to Western liberalism has created a fear that developing countries will stray from Western standards of democracy, transparency and human rights. This book reveals how the West's own past, hopes and fears shape the way it thinks about China ER -