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China orders the world : normative soft power and foreign policy
Title:
China orders the world : normative soft power and foreign policy
Author:
Callahan, William A.

Barabantseva, Elena
ISBN:
9781421403830
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2011
Physical Description:
xiv, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction: tradition, modernity, and foreign policy in China / William A. Callahan -- Rethinking empire from the Chinese concept "all-under-heaven" (tianxia) / Zhao Tingyang -- The possibility and inevitability of a Chinese school of international relations theory / Qin Yaqing -- Xunzi's thoughts on international politics and their implications / Yan Xuetong -- Tianxia, empire, and the world: Chinese visions of world order for the twenty-first century / William A. Callahan -- The enduring function of the substance/essence (ti/yong) dichotomy in Chinese nationalism / Christopher R. Hughes -- Paradoxes of tradition and modernity at the new frontier: China, Islam, and the problem of "different heavens" / David Kerr -- Beyond world order: change in China's negotiations of the world / Elena Barabantseva -- Confucianism, cultural tradition, and official discourse in China at the start of the new century / Se?bastien Billioud -- Conclusion: world harmony or harmonizing the world? / William A. Callahan.
Subject:
China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
China -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy