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Book SynopsisExamining the evolution of the Confucian doctrine of
tianxia (all under heaven), which aspires to a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social divides, the contributors show how it has shaped China's political organization, foreign policy, and worldview from the Han dynasty to the present.
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Chinese Visions of World Order is the best kind of edited volume; it gives the impression that its diverse array of contributions have been curated rather than commissioned.” -- Salvatore Babones * MCLC Resource Center *
"Compiles a fascinating multiplicity of philosophical thoughts and historiographic accounts of the Chinese
tianxia . . . . A good read for anyone interested in Chinese intellectual history and philosophy." -- Nele Noesselt * The China Quarterly *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Ban Wang 1
Part I. Tianxia, Confucianism, and Empire
1. Tianxia and the Invention of Empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-yu 25
2. From Empire to State: Kang Youwei, Confucian Universalism, and Unity / Wang Hui 49
3. The Chinese World Order and Planetary Sustainability / Prasenjit Duara 65
Part II. Tianxia, Cross-Cultural Learning, and Cosmopolitanism
4. The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei's
Book of the Great Community / Ban Wang 87
5. Greek Antiquity, Chinese Modernity, and the Changing World Order / Yiquan Zhou 106
6. Realizing Tianxia: Traditional Values and China's Foreign Policy / Daniel A. Bell 129
Part III. Tianxia and Socialist Internationalism
7. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists' Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy 149
8. China's Lost World of Internationalism / Lin Chun 177
9. China's Tianxia Worldlings: Socialist and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel 212
Part IV. Tianxia and Its Discontents
10. The Soft Power of the Constant Soldier: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the PLA / Haiyan Lee 237
11. Tracking Tianxia: On Intellectual Self-Positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen 267
Bibliography 293
Contributors 319
Index 323
