Ban Wang is William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford University and the author of several books, most recently, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China.
Introduction / Ban Wang 1
Part I. Tianxia, Confucianism, and Empire
1. Tianxia and the Invention of Empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-yu 25
2. From Empire to State: Kang Youwei, Confucian Universalism, and Unity / Wang Hui 49
3. The Chinese World Order and Planetary Sustainability / Prasenjit Duara 65
Part II. Tianxia, Cross-Cultural Learning, and Cosmopolitanism
4. The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the Great Community / Ban Wang 87
5. Greek Antiquity, Chinese Modernity, and the Changing World Order / Yiquan Zhou 106
6. Realizing Tianxia: Traditional Values and China's Foreign Policy / Daniel A. Bell 129
Part III. Tianxia and Socialist Internationalism
7. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists' Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzo and Mizoguchi Yuzo / Viren Murthy 149
8. China's Lost World of Internationalism / Lin Chun 177
9. China's Tianxia Worldlings: Socialist and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel 212
Part IV. Tianxia and Its Discontents
10. The Soft Power of the Constant Soldier: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the PLA / Haiyan Lee 237
11. Tracking Tianxia: On Intellectual Self-Positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen 267
Bibliography 293
Contributors 319
Index 323
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-6946-2
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Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-6931-8