RE-EMERGING CHINESE WORLDVIEWS? A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE REINCORPORATION OF HISTORICALLY ROOTED PERSPECTIVES WITHIN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE INTERNATIONAL THINKING
The article focuses upon the re-emergence of worldviews rooted in Imperial China, within contemporary Chinese international relations debates. A conceptual focus is applied in order toexamine how worldviews, understood as historical perceptions of "the world", "world order" andCh...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Estudos Internacionais (REI) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2538 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revista.uepb.edu.br/REI/article/view/2538 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | China Teoria das Relações Internacionais Tianxia Confucionismo Relacionalidade International Relations Theory Confucianism Relationality |
| Sumario: | The article focuses upon the re-emergence of worldviews rooted in Imperial China, within contemporary Chinese international relations debates. A conceptual focus is applied in order toexamine how worldviews, understood as historical perceptions of "the world", "world order" andChinas global positioning, have become central parts of autochthonous Chinese international thinking. An initial review of the global outlook embedded in the historical East Asian Sino-Centric order, the tributary system and traditional Confusion philosophy is followed by an analysis of its rematerializations within debates related to regional hierarchy, the Tianxia (All Under Heaven) concept, and the construction of IR theory with Chinese characteristics. The article concludes by stressing the importance of adopting an open-minded approach to the incipient Chinese international theorizations. Due to diverging perceptions of the essential purpose of theory, some recent Chinese contributions may seem inconsistent or somehow diffuse through the lens of conventional IR thinking, but might nonetheless provide a vital conceptual platform for future innovation within the field. |
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