{"product_id":"all-under-heaven-the-tianxia-system-for-a-possible-world-order-3-great-transformations-9780520325005","title":"All under Heaven The Tianxia System for a","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China's most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China's story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question Where did China come from?has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and pernicious asymmetry in the prevailing way scholars have gone about theorizing China according to Western concepts and categories, has tasked both Chinese and Western scholars to rethink China. Zhao introduces what he terms a distinctively Chinese centripetal whirlpool model of world order to interpret the historical progression of China's  tianxia(All under Heaven) identity construction. In this book, Zhao forwards a compelling thesis not only on how we should understand China, but also on how China until recently has understood itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword to the Chinese Edition\u003cbr\u003e Foreword to the English Edition\u003cbr\u003e New Foreword by Odd Arne Westad\u003cbr\u003e Translator’s Preface \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. A Redefinition of \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e as a Political Concept: Problems, Conditions, and Methods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I The \u003ci\u003eTianxia \u003c\/i\u003eConceptual Story\u003cbr\u003e 1. Politics Starting with the World\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Three-Tiered World of \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Correlating with \u003ci\u003eTian\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003epeitian\u003c\/i\u003e 配天)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Institutional Layout\u003cbr\u003e 5. No Outside (wuwai 无外)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Circle of Family and \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Tianming 天命 (Heavenly Invoked Order)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Virtuosic Power and Harmony\u003cbr\u003e 9. Why Might Good Order Collapse? \u003cbr\u003e 10. \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e as Method\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II The Encompassing \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e of China\u003cbr\u003e 11. A Whirlpool Model\u003cbr\u003e 12. A Condensed Version of \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Why Go Stag Hunting in the Central Plain?\u003cbr\u003e 14. Existing through Change\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III The Future of \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e Order\u003cbr\u003e 15. A World History Yet to Begin\u003cbr\u003e 16. Kantian Questions and Huntington's Problem\u003cbr\u003e 17. Two Types of Exteriority: Naturalist and Constructivist\u003cbr\u003e 18. Borders and No Outside \u003cbr\u003e 19. Materializing Conditions for a New \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20. New Tianxia: A Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Jizi's Lost Democracy: A Continuing\u003cbr\u003e Narration of \u003ci\u003eTianxia\u003c\/i\u003e—Toward a Smart Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography of Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402927841623,"sku":"9780520325005","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520325005.jpg?v=1730481872","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-under-heaven-the-tianxia-system-for-a-possible-world-order-3-great-transformations-9780520325005","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}