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The China scholar William Callahan, who has launched a critique of Zhao’s conception, suggests that his conception of tianxia as a top-down project of bringing order to a chaotic or potentially chaotic world cannot be derived from the thinkers Zhao uses such as Laozi and Zhuangzi.

we must break definitively both with neoliberal economics and with the various politics of recognition that have lately supported it—casting off not just exclusionary ethnonationalism but also liberal-meritocratic individualism.

cavity.

Indeed, with the establishment of the PRC, even pioneer reformers, such as the doyen of Chinese rural studies, Fei Xiaotong, who had sounded the clarion call for rural recovery early in his studies in the 1930s of the intimate relations of the Chinese peasant and the soil (xiangtu Zhongguo), became intoxicated by the dominant approach of subjugatin