Wang Chinese Visions of World Order

Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7244-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Examining 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Ban

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / 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 Junzo and Mizoguchi Yuzo / 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

Über Autor(innen)

Ban Wang is William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford University and the author of several books, most recently, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China.