| Uniform title | Tian xia de dang dai xing. English |
| Series |
Great transformations
Great transformations ; 3. ^A1379731
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| Contents |
Forward -- The forward to the English edition / Zhao Tingyang -- New forward : Zhao Tingyang and the tianxia world / Odd Arne Westad -- Translator's preface / Joseph E. Harroff -- Introduction : a renewed tianxia definition as political concept : problems, conditions, and methods -- The tianxia conceptual story -- The encompassing tianxia of China -- The future of tianxia order -- Appendix : Jizi's lost democracy : a continuing narration of tianxia -- towards a smart democracy |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Zhao, Tingyang, All under heaven Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520974210 |
| LCCN | 2020047088 |
| ISBN | 9780520325029 |
| ISBN | 9780520325005 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520325001 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520325028 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
