{"product_id":"the-china-order-fei-ling-wang-9781438467498","title":"The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power","description":"What does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rereading of Chinese \u003ci\u003elongue dur e\u003c\/i\u003e history, Fei-Ling Wang provides a simple but powerful framework for understanding the nature of persistent and rising Chinese power and its implications for the current global order. He argues that the Chinese ideation and tradition of political governance and world order--the China Order--is based on an imperial state of Confucian-Legalism as historically exemplified by the Qin-Han polity. Claiming a Mandate of Heaven to unify and govern the whole known world or \u003ci\u003etianxia\u003c\/i\u003e (all under heaven), the China Order dominated Eastern Eurasia as a world empire for more than two millennia, until the late nineteenth century. Since 1949, the People's Republic of China has been a reincarnated Qin-Han polity without the traditional China Order, finding itself stuck in the endless struggle against the current world order and the ever-changing Chinese society for its regime survival and security. Wang also offers new discoveries and assessments about the true golden eras of Chinese civilization, explains the great East-West divergence between China and Europe, and analyzes the China Dream that drives much of current Chinese foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fei-Ling Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438467494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438467498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2018","brand":"Fei-Ling Wang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057432850687,"sku":"9781438467498","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_448a22bd-4ec6-4bd3-808d-dbbbd5002741.jpg?v=1685046946","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-china-order-fei-ling-wang-9781438467498","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}