Comparative uses of metaphors in discourses on Chinese economic growth

China has emerged in the last decades from a closed economy, to an open economy experiencing very high economic growth. Indeed, based on the date of the World Bank, since 1980, the gross domestic product of China grow of about 2500%, while on the same time, the American one only about 400%. This very fast economic growth allowed China to be today the second economic power after the United States and in front of Japan, with a GDP that is likely to be higher that five trillion dollar in 2010, according to the World Bank. It is also believed by many economist that at the current rate, chinese GDP will overtake the United States one around 2020 thus making China, the country with the highest GDP of the world. This is an exceptional performance indeed, and it has comprehensibly provoked numerous articles, academic paper and comments, at an international scale. Journalists, scholars, and sometimes politicians, all try to describe, explain, criticize or give advices on this phenomenon. One explanation fo this excitement is that the economy is only a little part of the discourses on China and the concerns are more oriented about the future of China and the politics consequences of the economic growth.
Though, those discourses are biased and incomplete. The discourses quintescencally differ depending on where, how, and by whom they are produced and used. And that is the resutlt of the fact that the economic, political, social and cultural implications of Chinese economic growth does not affect all the region of the world equally. And sometimes, these aspects lack to be taken into account in some economic discourses despite an increasing link that is made between the economic and the politics. Nevertheless, some essential cultural and social aspects and habits of China and the West are too often forgotten in the analysis of the economic growth of China. For instance, the Chinese tend to have a