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In lieu of a concluding chapter, the Epilogue suggests three different ways in which studying Chinese world ordering before the West can help us reimagine the international for writing the future of the discipline of International Relations as a truly global enterprise.

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This chapter provides an analytical account of European participation in, and their cultural, economic, and diplomatic encounter with, Pax Sinica in the three centuries before violent clashes between Imperial China and European imperial powers in the mid-19th century. This is a historical period when institutions and norms of the tribute system govern European participation in Chinese world ordering and when the two world orders, Chinese and Europe, manage to achieve a prolonged period of peaceful coexistence. European participation is, in other words, highly contingent on the Europeans accommodating, adapting to, and/or accepting norms, values, rules, and institutions prevailing in Pax Sinica. This participation, it is argued, plays a significant role in reinforcing the legitimacy and reproducing the hierarchical social structure of Pax Sinica.

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Going beyond the tradition of Western political thought, this chapter looks at how thinkers and philosophers in Axial China deliberate and debate the idea of order. It examines why and how alternative visions of order are imagined and offered in antiquity and why world ordering becomes a moral and political quest in Axial China. Through this analysis, the chapter seeks to establish a broad claim that ancient Chinese political and philosophical deliberations are rich in international thought and to demonstrate why they are contemporaneous with us in search for global international thought firmly anchored in a pluralistic civilizational heritage.

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This chapter offers a critical assessment of ‘the international turn’ in the studies of ancient Chinese history and philosophy. This international turn, it is noted, coincides fortuitously with and complements the international turn in intellectual history in trans-Atlantic International Relations, though there is little evidence that they are aware of each other. This renaissance in the history of international thought in the global setting raises three challenging questions to the construction of a truly global intellectual history of the international in the longue dureé: (1) What is international thought? (2) Why should longue dureé intellectual history of the international go beyond the Enlightenment and the Renaissance? (3) Where to look for international thought? Answers to these questions can be fruitfully sought through a conversation between these two international turns in search of a global foundation of international thought.

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This introductory chapter sets out a compelling rationale for the book project to historicize Chinese world ordering from a civilizational and cultural perspective and outlines the contribution it seeks to make to scholarship. It also provides a brief description of the structure of the book and an outline of each chapter.

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Chinese World Ordering before the West
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A rich and enlightening study of Chinese international relations, this book shows how engaging China’s history can contribute to our search for global foundations of international thought. It examines international thought in ancient China, Chinese international relations in deep world history, and the evolution of contemporary Chinese academic IR as intellectual history.

Offering a distinctive English School perspective, this volume is a call to put studies of Chinese international relations in their proper historical context, arguing that such an approach leads to a better understanding of Chinese ideas and statecraft and contributes to a fruitful pursuit of IR knowledge production in the construction of global IR.

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This chapter provides a grand narrative of three historical transformations of order in the Chinese world in deep world history: the onset and endurance of a multi-state system in ancient China, the triumph and vicissitudes of a unified and universalist empire and a world order associated with it, and the eventual collapse of this universalistic world order, which led to the metamorphosis of the Chinese world into a China in the world of the Westphalian order. This is the deep historical context from which modern international system and contemporary global order emerge. Ideas, practices, and institutional achievements or failures of Chinese world ordering through these three transformations, it is argued, still raise questions of broad intellectual concerns that continue to resonate in the construction of global order today.

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