TO BUILD A HARMONIOUS WORLD: IDEAL OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE THINKING. By Baoxu Zhao. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 108. Hardback, $129.00; paperback, $129.00.

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-241
Author(s):  
Lehel Balogh
Keyword(s):  
Harmonious World

scholarly journals China’s Strategic Futures

Asian Survey ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Harmonious World

Abstract This essay examines how China’s “harmonious world” foreign policy has unintentionally created opportunities for citizens to challenge elite discussions of foreign policy. Although they are relative outsiders, the essay argues that citizen intellectuals are a growing influence as a source of ideas about China’s future—and the world’s.

scholarly journals Futures beyond ‘the West’? Autoimmunity in China’s harmonious world

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
ASTRID H.M. NORDIN
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Open Future ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Harmonious World ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
European Democracy ◽  
To Come

AbstractIt has become fashionable among International Relations scholars to draw on the concept of ‘autoimmunity’, which some call ‘the ultimate horizon in which contemporary politics inscribes itself’. To these scholars, most of whom draw on the thought of Jacques Derrida, such logics open systems up to a future to come. At the same time, they tend to identify such logics with Europe, America, Western modernity, and/or democracy. Implied, and sometimes explicit, in their accounts is the denial of autoimmune logics at work outside such an imagined configuration.This article challenges that denial through arguing that the system of ‘harmony’, deployed in contemporary China, also works on an autoimmune logic. If autoimmunity opens up a system to the future, this is not only so for European democracy or its derivatives. Moreover, the expulsion of ‘non-Western’ others from accounts of autoimmunity undermines their rethinking of difference by falling back on an immunitary logic, denying China an open future. This exclusion is their condition of possibility. At the same time, this exclusion is what keeps open their promise of its future to come. Paradoxically, the exclusion of the ‘non-West’ is what keeps the idea of an autoimmune ‘Western’ or European democracy alive.

scholarly journals Коды «мужского» и «не-мужского» в художественном мире Morpho Eugenia А.С. Байетт

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ирина Попова-Бондаренко
Keyword(s):  
Female Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Double Reading ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Harmonious World ◽  
Inner Strength

Morpho Eugenia is the first part of the postmodernist novel Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt. The male world is represented here in abundance by numerous names of famous naturalists, philosophers and poets of the XVII-XVIII centuries and of Victorian England, as well as by the male characters of the novel. It is pointed out that the concepts of “masculine” and “non-masculine” in the novel presuppose double reading, namely, the traditional (Victorian) and posttraditional one (neo-Victorian). In the neo-Victorian interpretation, most of the male characters in the novel are devoid of traditional masculine qualities (honor and dignity, commitment to the cause, inner strength), they bear a stigma of vice (incest), while the “male organization” features of the central female character, non-typical for a Victorian woman (talent, efficiency, perseverance, energy, self-reliance), contribute to the formation of an integral harmonious world of men and women as friends, lovers, like-minded people.

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