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1/29/12

China, world economy dragon mummy to Europe

The Chinese People’s Republic has opened up to negotiations in the international arena. In official documents they have substituted the term ‘peace rise’ when referring to the country’s model of development with the more harmonious slogan ‘peace development’. 30% of its foreign investment has already been 'China's scramble for Europe' on ecfr.eu" directed to the Mediterranean countries otherwise known as the PIIGS "Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy, countries most troubled by the economic crisis. They actually look forward to doing more business with central and eastern Europe.

All of this growth has led to a growing consumption amidst the young Chinese generation. Take the case of Guo Jingming. In Europe the teenage romance novel author is known for accusations of plagiarism in three of his bestsellers. However in China the 28-year-old’s status remains elevated to that of ‘hero’, perhaps also in light of the some twelve million euros (9.94 million pounds) he has earned since the beginning of his literary career. He represents this kind of ‘Chinese dream’ of ‘living fast and loving hard’ in a life sauce which smacks of Asian sweet-and-sour. ‘Europe is regarded by many Chinese as a continent of intellectuals, which is too conservative and too focused on its own affairs,’ explains the French Courrier International. In a word, Europe is ‘boring’. Meanwhile, European literature and culture has brought our attention to China via the works of the late Polish and Italian journalists Ryszard Kapuściński and Tiziano Terzani, or the director Bernardo Bertolucci’s outstanding film The Last Emperor (1987).

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