Martin Jacques



Profile:


Full name: Martin Jacques

Area of interest: Politics, globalisation, multiculturalism, racial prejudice

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:martinjacques1@aol.com martinjacques1@aol.com]; [mailto:m.jacques@lse.ac.uk jacques@lse.ac.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Martin Jacques

Blog: Comment is free...

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Biography:
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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


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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

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Viewpoints/Insight: Woman's Hour - Family & Relationships archive: Martin Jacques 10th December 2002 (audio)

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Controversy/Criticism: World Socialist Web Site: Martin Jacques: embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the “left” by Chris Marsden, 15th December 2004

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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:

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 * 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:

 * no regular column; also contributes to blog: Comment is free... (archive)

Column remit: Politics, globalisation, multiculturalism, racial prejudice

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Role: Commentator

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Website: Guardian.co / Martin Jacques

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Articles:

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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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