All Under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order Volume 3

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· 제목 : All Under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order Volume 3 (Paperback)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 역사 > 아시아 > 중국
· ISBN : 9780520325029
· 쪽수 : 332쪽
· 출판일 : 2021-06-29

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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.

Foreword to the Chinese Edition
Foreword to the English Edition
New Foreword by Odd Arne Westad
Translator’s Preface

Introduction. A Redefinition of Tianxia as a Political Concept: Problems, Conditions, and Methods

Part I The Tianxia Conceptual Story
1. Politics Starting with the World
2. The Three-Tiered World of Tianxia
3. Correlating with Tian (peitian 配天)
4. Institutional Layout
5. No Outside (wuwai 无外)
6. Circle of Family and Tianxia
7. Tianming 天命 (Heavenly Invoked Order)
8. Virtuosic Power and Harmony
9. Why Might Good Order Collapse?
10. Tianxia as Method

Part II The Encompassing Tianxia of China
11. A Whirlpool Model
12. A Condensed Version of Tianxia
13. Why Go Stag Hunting in the Central Plain?
14. Existing through Change

Part III The Future of Tianxia Order
15. A World History Yet to Begin
16. Kantian Questions and Huntington's Problem
17. Two Types of Exteriority: Naturalist and Constructivist
18. Borders and No Outside
19. Materializing Conditions for a New Tianxia
20. New Tianxia: A Vocabulary

Appendix. Jizi's Lost Democracy: A Continuing
Narration of Tianxia—Toward a Smart Democracy

Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index