Ban Wang is William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford University and the author of several books, most recently, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China.

“Chinese Visions of World Order is the best kind of edited volume; it gives the impression that its diverse array of contributions have been curated rather than commissioned.” - Salvatore Babones (MCLC Resource Center) "Compiles a fascinating multiplicity of philosophical thoughts and historiographic accounts of the Chinese tianxia . . . . A good read for anyone interested in Chinese intellectual history and philosophy." - Nele Noesselt (The China Quarterly)

• Introduction / Ban Wang  1Part I. Tianxia, Confucianism, and Empire1. Tianxia and the Invention of Empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-yu  252. From Empire to State: Kang Youwei, Confucian Universalism, and Unity / Wang Hui  493. The Chinese World Order and Planetary Sustainability / Prasenjit Duara  65Part II. Tianxia, Cross-Cultural Learning, and Cosmopolitanism4. The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the Great Community / Ban Wang  875. Greek Antiquity, Chinese Modernity, and the Changing World Order / Yiquan Zhou  1066. Realizing Tianxia: Traditional Values and China's Foreign Policy / Daniel A. Bell  129Part III. Tianxia and Socialist Internationalism7. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists' Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy  1498. China's Lost World of Internationalism / Lin Chun  1779. China's Tianxia Worldlings: Socialist and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel  212Part IV. Tianxia and Its Discontents10. The Soft Power of the Constant Soldier: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the PLA / Haiyan Lee  23711. Tracking Tianxia: On Intellectual Self-Positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen  267Bibliography  293Contributors  319Index  323

Ban Wang is William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford University and the author of several books, most recently, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China.

“Chinese Visions of World Order is the best kind of edited volume; it gives the impression that its diverse array of contributions have been curated rather than commissioned.” - Salvatore Babones (MCLC Resource Center) "Compiles a fascinating multiplicity of philosophical thoughts and historiographic accounts of the Chinese tianxia . . . . A good read for anyone interested in Chinese intellectual history and philosophy." - Nele Noesselt (The China Quarterly)

• Introduction / Ban Wang  1Part I. Tianxia, Confucianism, and Empire1. Tianxia and the Invention of Empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-yu  252. From Empire to State: Kang Youwei, Confucian Universalism, and Unity / Wang Hui  493. The Chinese World Order and Planetary Sustainability / Prasenjit Duara  65Part II. Tianxia, Cross-Cultural Learning, and Cosmopolitanism4. The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the Great Community / Ban Wang  875. Greek Antiquity, Chinese Modernity, and the Changing World Order / Yiquan Zhou  1066. Realizing Tianxia: Traditional Values and China's Foreign Policy / Daniel A. Bell  129Part III. Tianxia and Socialist Internationalism7. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists' Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy  1498. China's Lost World of Internationalism / Lin Chun  1779. China's Tianxia Worldlings: Socialist and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel  212Part IV. Tianxia and Its Discontents10. The Soft Power of the Constant Soldier: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the PLA / Haiyan Lee  23711. Tracking Tianxia: On Intellectual Self-Positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen  267Bibliography  293Contributors  319Index  323

Ban Wang is William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford University and the author of several books, most recently, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China.

“Chinese Visions of World Order is the best kind of edited volume; it gives the impression that its diverse array of contributions have been curated rather than commissioned.” - Salvatore Babones (MCLC Resource Center) "Compiles a fascinating multiplicity of philosophical thoughts and historiographic accounts of the Chinese tianxia . . . . A good read for anyone interested in Chinese intellectual history and philosophy." - Nele Noesselt (The China Quarterly)

• Introduction / Ban Wang  1Part I. Tianxia, Confucianism, and Empire1. Tianxia and the Invention of Empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-yu  252. From Empire to State: Kang Youwei, Confucian Universalism, and Unity / Wang Hui  493. The Chinese World Order and Planetary Sustainability / Prasenjit Duara  65Part II. Tianxia, Cross-Cultural Learning, and Cosmopolitanism4. The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the Great Community / Ban Wang  875. Greek Antiquity, Chinese Modernity, and the Changing World Order / Yiquan Zhou  1066. Realizing Tianxia: Traditional Values and China's Foreign Policy / Daniel A. Bell  129Part III. Tianxia and Socialist Internationalism7. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists' Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy  1498. China's Lost World of Internationalism / Lin Chun  1779. China's Tianxia Worldlings: Socialist and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel  212Part IV. Tianxia and Its Discontents10. The Soft Power of the Constant Soldier: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the PLA / Haiyan Lee  23711. Tracking Tianxia: On Intellectual Self-Positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen  267Bibliography  293Contributors  319Index  323