Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empire, Nation, and World Vision -- 1. Morality and Global Vision in Kang Youwei's World Community -- 2. Nationalism, Moral Reform, and Tianxia in Liang Qichao -- 3. World Literature in the Mountains -- 4. Art, Politics, and Internationalism in Korean War Films -- 5. National Unity, Ethnicity, and Socialist Utopia in Five Golden Flowers -- 6. The Third World, Alternative Development, and Global Maoism -- 7. The Cold War, Depoliticization, and China in the American Classroom -- 8. Using the Past to Understand the Present -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Ban Wang traces the shifting concept of the Chinese state from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how the Confucian notion of tianxia--"all under heaven"--influences China's dedication to contributing to and exchanging with a common world.

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