China’s traditional, modern, and neo-socialist world orders

• Main Author: CALLAHAN, William A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Chinese world order; Tianxia; Datong; Tributary system; Communist utopia; Traditions; International relations; Asian Studies; International Relations; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4151
• Institution: Singapore Management University

To explore twenty-first century discussions of China’s alternative world order, this chapter argues that we need to not only consider traditional world orders (All-under-Heaven – tianxia; Great Harmony – datong, and the Tributary System) but also examine the twentieth century’s modern revolutionary...