7. Tianming 天命 (Heavenly Invoked Order)

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword to the Chinese Edition vii
4. Foreword to the English Edition xiii
5. New Foreword xvii
6. Translator’s Preface xxiii
7. Introduction. A Redefinition of Tianxia as a Political Concept: Problems, Conditions, and Methods 1
8. Part I. The Tianxia Conceptual Story
9. 1. Politics Starting with the World 39
10. 2. The Three-Tiered World of Tianxia 49
11. 3. Correlating with Tian (peitian 配天) 52
12. 4. Institutional Layout 57
13. 5. No Outside (wuwai 无外) 62
14. 6. Circle of Family and Tianxia 67
15. 7. Tianming 天命 (Heavenly Invoked Order) 76
16. 8. Virtuosic Power and Harmony 91
17. 9. Why Might Good Order Collapse? 103
18. 10. Tianxia as Method 113
19. Part II. The Encompassing Tianxia of China
20. 11. A Whirlpool Model 119
21. 12. A Condensed Version of Tianxia 134
22. 13. Why Go Stag Hunting in the Central Plain? 154
23. 14. Existing through Change 179
24. Part III. The Future of Tianxia Order
25. 15. A World History Yet to Begin 183
26. 16. Kantian Questions and Huntington’s Problem 193
27. 17. Two Types of Exteriority: Naturalist and Constructivist 201
28. 18. Borders and No Outside 210
29. 19. Materializing Conditions for a New Tianxia 221
30. 20. New Tianxia: A Vocabulary 236
31. Appendix. Jizi’s Lost Democracy: A Continuing Narration of Tianxia—Toward a Smart Democracy 249
32. Notes 257
33. Bibliography of Works Cited 289
34. Index 297