Americanization, Westernization, Sinification, Modernization or Globalization of China?
The author argues that globalization has been an objective reality and inevitable tendency of human development from
which no one can escape. So long as a country opens to the outside world, it will be in the process of globalization.
China is no exception in this global age. Globalization is initiated and dominated by the US-led Western developed
countries. How-ever, no country, including the US, is able to manipulate completely the process of globaliza-tion on
which developing countries, including China, have been exerting more and more in-fluence. Globalization is a sword
with negative and positive sides for both developed and de-veloping countries. Both of them can either benefit from or
get lost in globalization. Global-ization changes modern world civilizations into a cosmopolity, no matter whether it
origi-nated in the East or the West. Therefore, to learn from the West never means “Westerniza-tion” while to learn from
the East never means “Easternization” exclusively, and China’s par-ticipation in WTO and introduction of market
economy never means “Westernizing or Americanizing China” exclusively. Internationalization, nationalization and
localization sup-plement each other. China has to participate actively in globalization if she wants to preserve her own
unique civilization; just as China has to carry her national advantages forward if she wants to participate in globalization
effectively. Globalization in an authentic sense is by no means an absolute “Westernization” or “Americanization”. It will
prove a lack of foresight to argue that China would be “Westernized” or “Americanized” once it participates in the
proc-ess of globalization.