China Orders the World

William A. Callahan is chair in international politics and Chinese studies at the University of Manchester and was a Woodrow Wilson Center fellow in 2007-8. Elena Barabantseva is lecturer in Chinese international relations at the University of Manchester.

"This is a fascinating and intellectually stimulating collection of essays. It engages one of the most pressing issues underlying China's apparent rise in world politics, mainly how those in China, especially inside the elite foreign policy community, view the world." (Allen Carlson, Cornell University) "Specialists in the field will definitely welcome the book. It deals with a recent trend among some Chinese establishment intellectuals that believe China should make the conscious attempt to shape the world system, which, they believe, is fundamentally flawed." (Shiping Hua, University of Louisville)"

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Introduction: Tradition, Modernity, and Foreign Policy in ChinaPart I: Rediscovering Traditional ConceptsChapter 2. Rethinking Empire from the Chinese Concept "All-under-Heaven" (Tianxia)Chapter 3. The Possibility and Inevitability of a Chinese School of International Relations TheoryChapter 4. Xunzi's Thoughts on International Politics and Their ImplicationsPart II: Mixing Past, Present, and FutureChapter 5. Tianxia, Empire, and the World: Chinese Visions of World Order for the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 6. The Enduring Function of the Substance/Essence (Ti/Yong) Dichotomy in Chinese NationalismChapter 7. Paradoxes of Tradition and Modernity at the New Frontier: China, Islam, and the Problem of "Different Heavens"Part III: Tradition and Modernity in Popular and State DiscourseChapter 8. Beyond World Order: Change in China's Negotiations over the WorldChapter 9. Confucianism, "Cultural Tradition," and Official Discourse in China at the Start of the New CenturyChapter 10. Conclusion: World Harmony or Harmonizing the World?Contributors Index