Imaginary Worlds and Imperial Power

L'ubomír Dunaj is Research Fellow at the Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. He is coeditor, with Jeremy Smith and Kurt Mertel, of Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason's Macro-Social Theory and, with Kurt Mertel, of Hans-Herbert Kögler's Critical Hermeneutics. Geir Sigurðsson is Professor of Chinese Studies and Transcultural Philosophy at the University of Iceland. He is the author of Confucian Propriety and Ritual Learning: A Philosophical Interpretation, by SUNY Press, and coeditor, with Tze-ki Hon, of Contemporary Interpretations and Readings of the Yijing: The Changes in Our Times.

• PrefaceRoger T. AmesIntroduction: Broadening Our Way to ChinaGeir SigurðssonPart I1. The Chinese Challenge to Historical SociologyJóhann P. ÁrnasonPart II: Imaginaries, Continuities, and Imaginary Continuities2. China in Eurasia: Goody, Árnason, and Imaginaries of the LandmassChris Hann3. Early Modern Periodizations and Their Philosophical Consequences: Figuring the Seventeenth-Century Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical ProblemLeigh Jenco4. The Preconceived Empire: China's Imperial Experience and Its Current RelevanceYuri PinesPart III: Civilization, Modernization, and Normativity5. China's Path to Modernization: Implications for Global GovernanceTing-mien Lee6. Árnason, Modern Confucianism, and the Cultural Conditionality of Modernization Jana S. Rošker7. Multiple Modernities — A Legitimate Heir to the Axial Age?Heiner RoetzPart IV: Toward Constructive Engagements8. Chinese Civilizational Identity: Ideological Models of the World and the Sacralization of a Confucian Huaxia IdentityDaniel Sarafinas9. The Politics of Sincerity, or Why Is the Legacy of Pre-Qin Confucianism Worth Fighting For?Guanjun Wu10. Tribunals, Trials, and Windows: De-Orwellizing Western Perspectives on ChinaĽubomír DunajList of Contributors

"Presenting a variety of perspectives on China, its imaginaries, its Axial Age, and its modernity, Imaginary Worlds and Imperial Power brings a unique approach to a crowded field of East Asian studies and is a significant contribution to the large English-language audience in search of more in-depth studies of China." — Jeremy C. A. Smith, Federation University Australia