The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power

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Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The China Order -- Arrangement of the Book -- Chapter 1. The Centralia: The Origin and the Basics -- The Chinese Nomenclature: More than Just Semantics -- China as a World: Ecogeography Shapes the Mind -- The Chinese Peoples and the Chinese Multination -- History and the Writing of History in China -- The Precondition: The Pre-Qin China -- The Glory and Peacefulness of the Warring States -- Chapter 2. The Qin-Han Polity and Chinese World Empire -- Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism -- The Qin Polity: The Chinese Totalitarianism -- The Qin Tianxia: A World Empire Order -- The Qin-Han Polity and the China Order -- The Fused Confucianism-Legalism -- The Consolidation and Expansion of the China Order -- The Recurrence of the China Order and the Great East-West Divergence -- The Evolution and Refinement of the China Order -- From the Second Great Disunion to the Ultimate China Order -- The Qing World Empire -- Chapter 3. The Forsaken Turn: The Song Era -- The Song: An Uncommon Qin-Han Empire -- Song's Chinese World -- Chanyuan System: A New World Order for Eastern Eurasia -- Chanyuan Treaty: The Chinese Peace of Westphalia -- The Chanyuan System in the Chinese Mind -- The Splendid Song: The Chinese World under the Chanyuan System -- Song Era: The Peak of Ancient Chinese Civilization -- Chapter 4. The China Order: An Assessment -- The China Order: The Characteristics -- Totality -- Universality -- Hierarchy -- Dualities -- Control -- Hypocrisy and Duplicity -- Efficacy -- Longevity -- The China Order versus the Westphalia System -- Ideal Governance for the Rulers at Exorbitant Expense -- Great Incompatibility and Long Stagnation -- Deadly Sisyphus, Inescapable Inferno -- Why the Stagnation: A Pausing Note on Monopoly -- Chapter 5. The Century of Humiliation and Progress

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The China order: Centralia, world empire, and the nature of Chinese power

Wang, Fei-Ling

Wang, Fei-Ling

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"Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization. What does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rereading of Chinese longue durée history, Fei-Ling Wang provides a simple but powerful framework for understanding the nature of persistent and rising Chinese power and its implications for the current global order. He argues that the Chinese ideation and tradition of political governance and world order--the China Order--is based on an imperial state of Confucian-Legalism as historically exemplified by the Qin-Han polity. Claiming a Mandate of Heaven to unify and govern the whole known world or tianxia (all under heaven), the China Order dominated Eastern Eurasia as a world empire for more than two millennia, until the late nineteenth century. Since 1949, the People's Republic of China has been a reincarnated Qin-Han polity without the traditional China Order, finding itself stuck in the endless struggle against the current world order and the ever-changing Chinese society for its regime survival and security. Wang also offers new discoveries and assessments about the true golden eras of Chinese civilization, explains the great East-West divergence between China and Europe, and analyzes the China Dream that drives much of current Chinese foreign policy"--Publisher description

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