Sublime

After the tumult of the twentieth century, Asia’s present-day success was by no means inevitable. Much of the region suffered a great deal under brutal Japanese occupation before and during World War II. As for Japan, by mid-August 1945 it was a defeated and occupied country. After World War II, China was in the throes of civil war between National

While Zhao’s effort to create a blueprint for an alternative to the Westphalian/Vatellian/UN order is laudable, it seems quite impracticable for the foreseeable future.

With regard to the contemporary utilization of tianxia, it seems rather odd to be applying an ancient system quite so mechanically to an entirely changed world.

While Zhao acknowledges that the post-Qin ideal of tianxia is transformed, his conception continues to offer a top-down method of political ordering as the essence of the tianxia system. I submit that I have trouble with this model.

Any discussion of South Asia begins and ends with India. In addition to its rising population, India’s economy is large and growing, in recent years at the robust rate of around 7 percent annually. India’s economy is the world’s seventh largest and will soon be in the top five, trailing only the United States, China, Japan, and Germany (overtaking

At the same time, communities in developing Asia have also begun to reach back into the values and practices of dialogical transcendence to salvage their worlds.

Modern universalisms seek to justify their vision as non-particularistic as well as non-transcendent. Let us start by assessing whether this ambition can be sustained and if so whether their effectiveness can be retained.