Fei-Ling Wang is Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His books include Organizing through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System and China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (coedited with Yong Deng).

"Wang's The China Order offers an elegant analysis of 'what China is' and what China's rise represents." — Journal of Chinese Studies"The strengths of the book lie in its obvious erudition (including, for example, a 68-page bibliography of items in Chinese and English), the clarity of the overall revisionist argument, at a time when much commentary in English at least tends to well-established nostrums based on either liberal or realist postulates, and its extremely useful dissection of much of the terminology in which current debates about China's foreign policies are conducted." — Pacific Affairs"…[Wang's] presentation and documentation of his argument is so thorough and devastatingly masterful that anyone who wants to talk about a 'China model' really should be required to read this book." — China Quarterly"…a magisterial history of what the Chinese people, and both their Chinese and non-Chinese rulers over the centuries, have thought about how the entire world should be arranged." — Claremont Review of Books"…[a] thought-provoking volume … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"An original, important, well-researched, and powerfully argued exploration of the virtues and vices of the Chinese state from its ancient past to its likely future." — Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison"A masterpiece. Wang provides a grand, sweeping, even epic review of two thousand years of Chinese history. His argument is compelling and well documented; the richness and variety of sources—Chinese and English—he cites is breathtaking. The book is likely to end up on the reading list of every serious student of China's position in the world for many years to come." — Daniel C. Lynch, author of China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy"This imaginative and provocative grand tour of Chinese cosmological order and geopolitical strategy, past and present, is destined to become a classic." — Ming Xia, author of The People's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance

• Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The China OrderArrangement of the Book1. The Centralia: The Origin and the BasicsThe Chinese Nomenclature: More than Just SemanticsChina as a World: Ecogeography Shapes the MindThe Chinese Peoples and the Chinese MultinationHistory and the Writing of History in ChinaThe Precondition: The Pre-Qin ChinaThe Glory and Peacefulness of the Warring States2. The Qin-Han Polity and Chinese World EmpireAuthoritarianism and TotalitarianismThe Qin Polity: The Chinese TotalitarianismThe Qin Tianxia: A World Empire OrderThe Qin-Han Polity and the China OrderThe Fused Confucianism-LegalismThe Consolidation and Expansion of the China OrderThe Recurrence of the China Order and the Great East-West DivergenceThe Evolution and Refinement of the China OrderFrom the Second Great Disunion to the Ultimate China OrderThe Qing World Empire3. The Forsaken Turn: The Song EraThe Song: An Uncommon Qin-Han EmpireSong’s Chinese WorldChanyuan Treaty: China’s Peace of WestphaliaChanyuan System: A New World Order for Eastern EurasiaChanyuan System in the Chinese MindThe Splendid Song: The Chinese World under the Chanyuan SystemSong Era: The Peak of Ancient Chinese Civilization4. The China Order: An AssessmentThe China Order: The CharacteristicsThe China Order versus the Westphalia SystemIdeal Governance for the Rulers at Exorbitant ExpensesGreat Incompatibility and Long StagnationDeadly Sisyphus, Inescapable InfernoWhy the Stagnation: A Pausing Note on Monopoly5. The Century of Humiliation and ProgressThe Decay and Fading of the China OrderWesternization: The Way to SurviveThe Unusual Fall of the Qing EmpireThe ROC on the Chinese Mainland: An Era of OpportunitiesLate-Qing and the Republican Eras: A Reassessment6. Great Leap BackwardThe ROC: A Tenacious but Transforming AuthoritarianismThe Rise of the CCPMao and the Mandate of the PeopleGuns, Ruses, and PromisesThe PRC: A New Qin-Han StatePost-Mao: The Qin-Han Polity Changes and ContinuesSuboptimal Performance, Rich State, Strong Military7. The China Struggle Between Tianxia and WestphaliaThe Tianxia MandateMao’s Global War for a New China OrderRescued and Enriched by the EnemyOpening and Hiding: To Survive the End of the Cold WarThe China Dream: Rejuvenation and Global GovernanceEpilogue: The ScenariosNotesBibliographyIndex

Fei-Ling Wang is Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His books include Organizing through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System and China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (coedited with Yong Deng).

"Wang's The China Order offers an elegant analysis of 'what China is' and what China's rise represents." — Journal of Chinese Studies"The strengths of the book lie in its obvious erudition (including, for example, a 68-page bibliography of items in Chinese and English), the clarity of the overall revisionist argument, at a time when much commentary in English at least tends to well-established nostrums based on either liberal or realist postulates, and its extremely useful dissection of much of the terminology in which current debates about China's foreign policies are conducted." — Pacific Affairs"…[Wang's] presentation and documentation of his argument is so thorough and devastatingly masterful that anyone who wants to talk about a 'China model' really should be required to read this book." — China Quarterly"…a magisterial history of what the Chinese people, and both their Chinese and non-Chinese rulers over the centuries, have thought about how the entire world should be arranged." — Claremont Review of Books"…[a] thought-provoking volume … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"An original, important, well-researched, and powerfully argued exploration of the virtues and vices of the Chinese state from its ancient past to its likely future." — Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison"A masterpiece. Wang provides a grand, sweeping, even epic review of two thousand years of Chinese history. His argument is compelling and well documented; the richness and variety of sources—Chinese and English—he cites is breathtaking. The book is likely to end up on the reading list of every serious student of China's position in the world for many years to come." — Daniel C. Lynch, author of China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy"This imaginative and provocative grand tour of Chinese cosmological order and geopolitical strategy, past and present, is destined to become a classic." — Ming Xia, author of The People's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance

• Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The China OrderArrangement of the Book1. The Centralia: The Origin and the BasicsThe Chinese Nomenclature: More than Just SemanticsChina as a World: Ecogeography Shapes the MindThe Chinese Peoples and the Chinese MultinationHistory and the Writing of History in ChinaThe Precondition: The Pre-Qin ChinaThe Glory and Peacefulness of the Warring States2. The Qin-Han Polity and Chinese World EmpireAuthoritarianism and TotalitarianismThe Qin Polity: The Chinese TotalitarianismThe Qin Tianxia: A World Empire OrderThe Qin-Han Polity and the China OrderThe Fused Confucianism-LegalismThe Consolidation and Expansion of the China OrderThe Recurrence of the China Order and the Great East-West DivergenceThe Evolution and Refinement of the China OrderFrom the Second Great Disunion to the Ultimate China OrderThe Qing World Empire3. The Forsaken Turn: The Song EraThe Song: An Uncommon Qin-Han EmpireSong’s Chinese WorldChanyuan Treaty: China’s Peace of WestphaliaChanyuan System: A New World Order for Eastern EurasiaChanyuan System in the Chinese MindThe Splendid Song: The Chinese World under the Chanyuan SystemSong Era: The Peak of Ancient Chinese Civilization4. The China Order: An AssessmentThe China Order: The CharacteristicsThe China Order versus the Westphalia SystemIdeal Governance for the Rulers at Exorbitant ExpensesGreat Incompatibility and Long StagnationDeadly Sisyphus, Inescapable InfernoWhy the Stagnation: A Pausing Note on Monopoly5. The Century of Humiliation and ProgressThe Decay and Fading of the China OrderWesternization: The Way to SurviveThe Unusual Fall of the Qing EmpireThe ROC on the Chinese Mainland: An Era of OpportunitiesLate-Qing and the Republican Eras: A Reassessment6. Great Leap BackwardThe ROC: A Tenacious but Transforming AuthoritarianismThe Rise of the CCPMao and the Mandate of the PeopleGuns, Ruses, and PromisesThe PRC: A New Qin-Han StatePost-Mao: The Qin-Han Polity Changes and ContinuesSuboptimal Performance, Rich State, Strong Military7. The China Struggle Between Tianxia and WestphaliaThe Tianxia MandateMao’s Global War for a New China OrderRescued and Enriched by the EnemyOpening and Hiding: To Survive the End of the Cold WarThe China Dream: Rejuvenation and Global GovernanceEpilogue: The ScenariosNotesBibliographyIndex