All under heaven : the Tianxia system for a possible world order / Zhao Tingyang ; translated by Joseph E. Harroff ; with a new foreword by Odd Arne Westad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhao, Tingyang, author.

Contributor:

Harroff, Joseph E., translator.

Westad, Odd Arne, writer of foreword.

Series:

Great transformations ; 3.

Great transformations ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--China--Philosophy.

Political science.

Cosmology, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 301 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang as one of China's most distinguished and respected intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China's story. 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 alike to ";rethink China."; To this end, Zhao introduces what he terms a distinctively Chinese centripetal ";whirlpool"; model of world order to interpret the historical progression of China’s ";All-Under-Heaven"; tianxia identity construction on the central plain of China. In this book, Zhao forwards a novel and compelling thesis on not only how we should understand China, but also until recently, how China has understood itself.

Contents:

Introduction: A redefinition of Tianxia as a political concept : problems, conditions, and methods – Part I: The Tianxia conceptual story. Politics starting with the world ; The three-tiered world of Tianxia ; Correlating with Tian ; Institutional layout ; No outside ; Circle of family and Tianxia ; Tianming ; Virtuosic power and humanity ; Why might good order collapse? ; Tianxia as method – Part II: The encompassing Tianxia of China. A whirlpool model ; A condensed version of Tianxia ; Why go stag hunting in the central plain ; Existing through change – Part III: The future of Tianxia order. A world history yet to begin ; Kantian questions and Huntington's problem ; Two types of exteriority: naturalist and constructivist ; Borders and no outside ; Materializing conditions for a new Tianxia ; New Tianxia : a vocabulary – Appendix: Jizi’s lost democracy : a continuing narration of Tianxia : toward a smart democracy

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520974210

0520974212

OCLC:

1226961970