All under heaven : the Tianxia system for a possible world order /
"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 t...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Chino |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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Series: | Great transformations ;
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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