What succeeded was not globalisation, but glocalisation, the internalisation of universal ideas and beliefs by the many, and not just the few. By the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, Chinese thinkers struggled with what would replace the old order. The Chinese elite understood that the rebuilding of China from the collapse of the old order was a monumental task. Even though they felt the burden of history, they also understood that there was no parallel in history on the scale of Chinese transformation. Glocalisation, the simultaneous contradiction between global and local, is to be welcomed, rather than feared.

Source: The Star July 02, 2021 22:07 UTC