Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives : : Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order / / ed. by Roger T. Ames, Sor-hoon Tan, Steven Y. H. Yang, Roger T. Ames, Peter D. Hershock.

Tianxia—conventionally translated as “all-under-Heaven”—in everyday Chinese parlance simply means “the world.” But tianxia is also a geopolitical term found in canonical writings that has a deeper historical and philosophical significance. Although there are many understandings of tianxia in this li...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Confucian Cultures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Challenging Hegemony and Global Capitalism
  • 1 Relationality without Hierarchy: Hong Daeyong’s Reappraisal of Tianxia
  • 2 Tianxia as Anticosmopolitan and Protoracial: A Case Study of Late Imperial Vietnam
  • 3 “We Choose to Go to the Moon” for Truth, Justice, and Peace on Earth: A Dialogue for Socioeconomic Justice between Ubu-ntu and Buren
  • 4 Ideology, Quixotism, or Enabling Utopia? The Notion of Tianxia as a Model for a New Form of Global Governance and Coexistence, Seen in the Light of the Japanese Experience
  • 5 Toward a New World Order: Reading Tianxia with Marx and Hegel
  • Part II From Nation-States to a Relational Ecology
  • 6 Why Does Tianxia Need a Nation- State? Nation and Tianxia in Modern China
  • 7 Comparing the Ancient Chinese Tianxia Order and the Postwar UN- Centric International Order
  • 8 Tianxia and Islam
  • 9 Tianxia: A Process of Relations
  • 10 Universalizing Tianxia in an East Asian Context
  • 11 Virtuosic Relationality and Ethical Diversity: A Buddhist Revisioning of International Relations beyond Anarchy and Hierarchy
  • Part III A Minimalist Morality for Solidarity and Mutual Critique
  • 12 Spheres of Global Justice and Tianxia Theory
  • 13 Tianxia and Global Distributive Justice
  • 14 Heavenly Governing All- under- Heaven: Reconceptualizing the Confucian Daren 大人 Idea for the Tianxia 天下 Leadership
  • 15 Without War or Conquest: The Idea of a Global Political Order in Asoka’s Dhamma
  • 16 From John Dewey to the Confucian “Idea” of Internationalism
  • Contributors
  • Index