On: In China's Orbit

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Ahem: that's professor Niall Ferguson you're talking about!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Ferguson

(One may argue with aspects of his outlook and analysis, and even his scholarship -- as have the likes of Paul Krugman -- but even so, he's one of the most famous historians of the current period, and an excellent prose stylist besides.)