{
  "id": "asian-century.claimed-future",
  "term": "asian century",
  "sense": "claimed-future",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 19,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A story giving a coming period to one collective self, as the time in which its reach will set most walls on others.",
  "folk_gloss": "the idea that a coming century will be dominated by Asia, on the pattern of 'the American century'",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "story.narrative",
      "narrative.self-story",
      "give.transfer",
      "come.arrive",
      "period.temporal",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "time.dimension",
      "reach.action",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "power.over",
      "future.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "A trajectory is read forward and named: a whole future period is given to one group, so its current acts read as taking up a place already set for it, and others' acts read as making room or refusing it.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a future period owned in advance",
      "a trajectory turned into a name",
      "others' future walls assigned to one setter"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Henry Luce's 1941 essay in Life magazine, 'The American Century', argued that the United States should take the leading role in world affairs.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "rising-power.upward",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "rising power reads reach widening now; this names the period it will fill"
    },
    {
      "id": "right-side-of-history.destined",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "that reads all of history moving toward an end; this gives one period to one group"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "american century",
    "asian century",
    "pacific century",
    "the american century",
    "the asian century",
    "the pacific century"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asian-century.claimed-future"
}