Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I. TIANXIA, CONFUCIANISM, AND EMPIRE
5. 1. Tianxia and the Invention of Empire in East Asia 25
6. 2. From Empire to State: Kang Youwei, Confucian Universalism, and Unity 49
7. 3. The Chinese World Order and Planetary Sustainability 65
8. PART II. TIANXIA, CROSS-CULTURAL LEARNING, AND COSMOPOLITANISM
9. 4. The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei’s Book of the Great Community 87
10. 5. Greek Antiquity, Chinese Modernity, and the Changing World Order 106
11. 6. Realizing Tianxia: Traditional Values and China’s Foreign Policy 129
12. PART III. TIANXIA AND SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM
13. 7. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists’ Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō 149
14. 8. China’s Lost World of Internationalism 177
15. 9. China’s Tianxia Worldings: Socialist and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanisms 212
16. PART IV. TIANXIA AND ITS DISCONTENTS
17. 10. The Soft Power of the Constant Soldier: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the PLA 237
18. 11. Tracking Tianxia: On Intellectual Self-Positioning 267
19. Bibliography 293
20. Contributors 319
21. Index 323