All Under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order Volume 3

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.

Author: Tingyang Zhao
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 06/29/2021
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.83w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780520325029
ISBN10: 0520325028
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | China
- Political Science | World | Asian
- Political Science | Globalization

About the Author
Zhao Tingyang is a philosopher of political theory, metaphysics, and philosophy of history. His known theories include tianxia as a philosophy of world order, the ontology of coexistence, human rights as credit rights, and the whirlpool power of China.