Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China claims the same level of global leadership as the U.S. holds today? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China has managed to embrace our own?

In this book, one of the leading experts on China, Kerry Brown, takes us beyond the worn-out clichés and into China's leadership - as they develop a roadmap to work in a world where China shares dominance with the West.

From how and why China as a dominant superpower has been inevitable for many years, to how efforts to fight old battles have ended, Brown delves deeper into the discontent nature of China's current situation - the treatment of dissenting opinion, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the strict restrictions on managing relationships with other cultures and values. These issues shape the way the West sees China, how China sees the West, and how both see themselves.

There are obstacles for the West to accept a more prominent role for China in the world - but the fact that this process will be difficult does not mean it shouldn't happen. As Kerry Brown writes: history does indeed end, but not as the West believed.