Rise of the Asian Giants : The Dragon-Elephant Tango

While the rise of China has long been an accepted fact of international economic and political relations, the recent rise of India as an economic power has provoked intense global interest in the question of what the emergence of the two together portends for the rest of the world. This book presents a Chinese assessment of how China and India see themselves, each in relation to the other, focusing on their shared and divergent experiences of modernization and economic reform and the ramifications thereof in respect of each country's role in global affairs. Eschewing the geopolitical idiom of competition and rivalry between emerging Asian giants, the book seeks to understand the parallel, complementary, convergent and divergent development experiences from a more self-consciously geocivilizational perspective.

Prof. Tan Chung has taught Chinese language, history and civilization at the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, and is currently Academic Associate at the Centre for East Asian Studies of the University of Chicago. He has authored a number of titles both in Chinese and English on aspects of Chinese language, culture and literature, modern Chinese history, and civilizational interactions between India and China. Prof. Patricia Uberoi is Honorary Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and formerly Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. She has written widely on themes of family, kinship, marriage and gender, and on aspects of popular culture and social policy in reference to both India and China. Series Editor: prof. Tansen Sen, Associate Professor, Department of History, Weissman School