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In 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.
Contents
Foreword to the Chinese EditionForeword to the English EditionNew Foreword by Odd Arne WestadTranslator's Preface Introduction. A Redefinition of Tianxia as a Political Concept: Problems, Conditions, and MethodsPart I The Tianxia Conceptual Story1. Politics Starting with the World2. The Three-Tiered World of Tianxia3. Correlating with Tian (peitian )4. Institutional Layout5. No Outside (wuwai )6. Circle of Family and Tianxia7. Tianming (Heavenly Invoked Order)8. Virtuosic Power and Harmony9. Why Might Good Order Collapse? 10. Tianxia as MethodPart II The Encompassing Tianxia of China11. A Whirlpool Model12. A Condensed Version of Tianxia13. Why Go Stag Hunting in the Central Plain?14. Existing through ChangePart III The Future of Tianxia Order15. A World History Yet to Begin16. Kantian Questions and Huntington's Problem17. Two Types of Exteriority: Naturalist and Constructivist18. Borders and No Outside 19. Materializing Conditions for a New Tianxia20. New Tianxia: A VocabularyAppendix. Jizi's Lost Democracy: A ContinuingNarration of Tianxia-Toward a Smart DemocracyNotes Bibliography of Works CitedIndex
