Martin Jacques

Profile: Full name: Martin Jacques Area of interest: Politics, globalisation, multiculturalism, racial prejudice Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: martin@martinjacques.com Personal website: http://martinjacques.com Website: Guardian.co / Martin Jacques Blog: Comment is free... Representation: The Wylie Agency - UK: mail@wylieagency.co.uk | US: mail@wylieagency.com Networks:

Biography: About: http://martinjacques.com/biography.html Education: Career: Marxism Today: editor, 1977/1991; The Independent: deputy editor, 1994/6; The Sunday Times and The Times: former columnist; The Guardian: columnist Current position/role: Columnist, writer, broadcaster also writes/has written for: Academic roles: Visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre and recently a visiting professor at the International Centre for Chinese Studies at Aichi University in Japan, a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing and a senior visiting fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Woman's Hour - Family & Relationships archive: Martin Jacques 10th December 2002 (audio) Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: World Socialist Web Site: Martin Jacques: embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the “left” by Chris Marsden, 15th December 2004 Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: Co-founder (with Geoff Mulgan) of the thinktank Demos (profile) - see also: Demos UK (Wikipedia info)

Books & Debate: The Forward March of Labour Halted? OCLC 8952207 , with E J Hobsbawm and Francis Mulhern, 1981 The politics of Thatcherism OCLC 13670913 , with Stuart Hall, 1983 New Times OCLC 22313643 , with Stuart Hall, 1989 Latest work: When China rules the world OCLC214307377 , Asian modernity and the rise of China. Allen Lane, 2008. Reviewed by Ian Buruma in The Times, here Speaking/Appearances: http://martinjacques.com/events.html Debate: see also: It seemed impossible, but at last Martin Jacques got justice for the wife he loved - Martin Jacques defied the odds to expose racial prejudice and medical negligence in a Hong Kong hospital. Here he tells of his feelings on learning that his 10-year struggle was over, The Guardian, 4th April 2010

The Guardian: Column name: no regular column; also contributes to blog: Comment is free... Remit/Info: Politics, globalisation, multiculturalism, racial prejudice Section: Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: Website: Guardian.co / Martin Jacques Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Beijing's power struggle is bigger than America's - The backdrop to the events surrounding Bo Xilai is provided by a huge debate about the country's future - 12th April 2012 Why do we continue to ignore China's rise? Arrogance - Martin Jacques, author of a bestseller on China, asks why the west continues to approach the rise of the new global powerhouse with a closed mind. We obsess over details of the race for the White House, yet give scant regard to the battle to replace China's current leadership. If we fail to pay heed to the political and economic shift of gravity, we will be sidelined by history - 26th March 2012 China's path to reform - The west presumes there is little discussion and argument in Beijing over policy. This is wrong - 19th March 2012 Beijing raises its voice - China's tough response on US arms sales to Taiwan reflects the shift in the global balance of power - 1st February 2010 Japan's change of regime won't mean a change of direction - Although a historic victory for Japan's Democratic party, Sunday's election result will mean little in practice - 1st September 2009 Don't judge China by our standards - The Chinese state has a competence that far exceeds that of Western states - 1st August 2009 (writing in The Independent) Identity runs deep in China - A powerful sense of Han identity pervades China – any respect for Uighur difference would break with centuries of attitudes - 11th July 2009 (See also: China: summary) Currency, culture, Confucius: China's writ will run across the world - The rise of the East will change more than just economics. It will shake up the whole way that we think and live our lives - 24th June 2009 (writing in The Times) Welcome to China's millennium - Our myopic model of modernity means we have yet to grasp not just that the future will be Chinese but how very Chinese it will be - 23rd June 2009 Is western supremacy but a blip as China rises to the global summit? - The country's trajectory and the change in its people's values and aspirations are cause for heated debate. Two experts go head to head - 23rd June 2009 (with Will Hutton) Marx's keeper - review: The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels - Tristram Hunt's lively biography of Engels could hardly be more timely - 2nd May 2009 The great shift in global power just hit high gear, sparked by a financial crash - As an emboldened China sees, the American dollar is gravely wounded. And the days of US political supremacy are numbered - 20th April 2009 The end of King Arthur's reign - In the face of Thatcher's iron will, Scargill's decision to lead the strike without a ballot was an error that sealed the miners' fate - 7th March 2009 Global recovery rests on a fresh US approach to China - Salvation does not lie in demagogic attacks. Beijing must be treated as an equal - or another Great Depression beckons - 13th February 2009 Malaysia is a rare multiracial success. But its stability is being put to the test - A repeat legal assault on the opposition leader highlights the current volatility. The old order is desperate to hold power - Friday, 15th August 2008 Burma and Zimbabwe witness the last gasps of the supreme global sheriff - The west can no longer impose its will on the increasingly powerful and self-confident nations of the developing world - Wednesday, 30th July 2008 Power and morality - Foreign policy is often dressed up in moral rhetoric, but ultimately might is stronger than right - Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 China is back on familiar territory - As relations warm with both Taiwan and Japan, China is resuming its centuries-old position as the linchpin of east Asia - Thursday, 19th June 2008 As China's power grows, the diaspora starts to flex its worldwide muscle - 11th June 2008 Nice one, Max - Max Mosley's survival is a victory for the right to privacy. The News of the World should be worried - Friday, 6th June 2008 Auto-political - Driving habits mirror politics. So, as the neocon moment passes into history, the Hummer brand has fallen on hard times - Thursday, 5th June 2008 Myopia on Myanmar - Governments and the media need to wake up to the fact that east Asia can increasingly look after itself and doesn't need or want western help - Wednesday, 21st May 2008 Hu's diplomatic know-how - This is supposed to be China's year - and by travelling to Japan, its president is showing fresh willingness to tackle one of its most difficult relationships - Thursday, 8th May 2008 Rise of the right - The use of fascist symbols, the threat of violence, the demonisation of minorities... hasn't Italy been here before? - Wednesday, 30th April 2008 Mr Livingstone, I presume - London elections 08: Ken Livingstone is a remarkable and far-sighted politician. Londoners would do well to vote him in for a third term - Monday, 28th April 2008 A key appointment at the World Bank shows the importance of Beijing to the institutions it will soon come to dwarf - Wednesday, 23rd April 2008 Wright and wrong - Ian Wright's departure from the BBC's football punditry team casts shame on the corporation: it is guilty of cultural apartheid - Friday, 18th April 2008 Is Italy still a democracy? - What the election of Silvio Berlusconi represents is the conquest and occupation of the state by private interests - Wednesday, 16th April 2008 Life in the fast lane - Tata's purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover signals that India and China are turning the old hierarchy of global trade on its head - Wednesday, 26th March 2008 Events in Tibet expose China's achilles heel: its inability to recognise and respect ethnic difference - Monday, 17th March 2008 Northern Rock's rescue is part of a geopolitical sea change - This is no blip. The global economic crisis will burst the bubble of free-market doctrine and force states to take a more active role - Monday, 18th February 2008 The rise of China and the decline of the US has been the the most important force of this decade - 2nd January 2008 A new hero for our times - He lost at the last but Lewis Hamilton rocked all expectations - and not just in formula one - 22nd October 2007 Encircled and humiliated - The source of the current tension between Moscow and the west is US and Nato military provocation - 5th June 2007 To succeed, Brown must show he is like Thatcher - The celebrity premier's successor can become a leader of substance if only he has the political courage to get serious - 25th May 2007 Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers - The French presidential favourite's pandering to the far right is indulged because of his pro-US stance and neo-liberalism - 4th May 2007 Anti-terror stunts and a barrage of propaganda are demonising Muslims and making Islamophobia the acceptable face of racism - 15th February 2007 Whatever the outcome of the police investigation, Blair's legacy will be deeply tainted - and the party may yet implode - 6th February 2007 British society is dripping in racism, but no one is prepared to admit it - The foul-mouthed abuse on Big Brother shows how little we understand about prejudice, and the world judges us for it - 20th January 2007

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