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Chinese visions of world order : tianxia, culture, and world politics / Ban Wang, editor.

Contributor(s): Wang, Ban, 1957- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 330 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822369318; 0822369311; 9780822369462; 082236946XSubject(s): China -- Foreign relations | China -- Civilization | World politics -- 1989-DDC classification: 327.51 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Tianxia, Confucianism, and empire. Tianxia and the invention of empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Mei-Yu Hsieh -- From empire to state : Kang Youwei, Confucian universalism, and unity / Wang Hui -- The Chinese world order and planetary sustainability / Prasenjit Duara -- Tianxia, cross-cultural learning, and cosmopolitanism. The moral vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the great community / Ban Wang -- Greek antiquity, Chinese modernity, and the changing world order / Yiqun Zhou -- Realizing tianxia : traditional values and China's foreign policy / Daniel A. Bell -- Tianxia and socialist internationalism. Tianxia and postwar Japanese Sinologists' vision of the Chinese Revolution : the cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy -- China's lost world of internationalism / Lin Chun -- China's tianxia worldings : socialist and postsocialist cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel -- Tianxia and its discontents. The soft power of the constant soldier : or, Why we should stop worrying and learn to love the PLA / Haiyan Lee -- Tracking Tianxia : on intellectual self-positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Tianxia, Confucianism, and empire. Tianxia and the invention of empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Mei-Yu Hsieh -- From empire to state : Kang Youwei, Confucian universalism, and unity / Wang Hui -- The Chinese world order and planetary sustainability / Prasenjit Duara -- Part II. Tianxia, cross-cultural learning, and cosmopolitanism. The moral vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the great community / Ban Wang -- Greek antiquity, Chinese modernity, and the changing world order / Yiqun Zhou -- Realizing tianxia : traditional values and China's foreign policy / Daniel A. Bell -- Part III. Tianxia and socialist internationalism. Tianxia and postwar Japanese Sinologists' vision of the Chinese Revolution : the cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy -- China's lost world of internationalism / Lin Chun -- China's tianxia worldings : socialist and postsocialist cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel -- Part IV. Tianxia and its discontents. The soft power of the constant soldier : or, Why we should stop worrying and learn to love the PLA / Haiyan Lee -- Tracking Tianxia : on intellectual self-positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen.

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