All under Heaven
The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order
Tingyang Zhao author Joseph E Harroff translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:3rd Aug '21
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. 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 to "rethink China." Zhao introduces what he terms a distinctively Chinese centripetal "whirlpool" model of world order to interpret the historical progression of China’s tianxia (All under Heaven) identity construction. In this book, Zhao forwards a compelling thesis not only on how we should understand China, but also on how China until recently has understood itself.
ISBN: 9780520325005
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
Weight: 590g
332 pages