Book Launch: The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power

What does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rereading of Chinese longue durée 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 (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.

[omarsharif]

Great work by Professor Wang. However, there may be just one small but crucial introduction that I wish he could have made on the core of Confucianism and Legalism (Realism). Without this introduction, I am afraid readers who have no knowledge of Pre-Qin Chinese political thoughts will be completely lost.

[erltyriss]

China pushing to have its interest recognized and considered more in international affairs is one thing, but China pushing to dominate and reorder the entire international order for its own desires and command would lead to the worst wars in human history. China will grow in power, but the United States, Europe, and Russia will still stay full capable peers to China for centuries to come. And there is always other nations rising back up as well to include Brazil and India, and potentially a more capable African Union in time.

[MrChuyepto]

China isn't going to tell you what their really intentions are, please don't you think we all know how they are doing little by little all over the world specially in Tibet and in Xinjiang or Bhutan, so don't be foul.

[MrChuyepto]

I wish me and my family and loveones NEVER see the day that we can be under China rule , NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER 😣😂