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...

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1. Verfasser: Zhao, Tingyang 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Harroff, Joseph E. (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Great transformations 3
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:xxviii, 301 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780520325029
9780520325005

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