Introduction: tradition, modernity, and foreign policy in China / William A. Callahan
Rethinking empire from the Chinese concept "all-under-heaven" (tianxia) / Zhao Tingyang
The possibility and inevitability of a Chinese school of international relations theory / Qin Yaqing
Xunzi's thoughts on international politics and their implications / Yan Xuetong
Tianxia, empire, and the world: Chinese visions of world order for the twenty-first century / William A. Callahan
The enduring function of the substance/essence (ti/yong) dichotomy in Chinese nationalism / Christopher R. Hughes
Paradoxes of tradition and modernity at the new frontier: China, Islam, and the problem of "different heavens" / David Kerr
Beyond world order: change in China's negotiations of the world / Elena Barabantseva
Confucianism, cultural tradition, and official discourse in China at the start of the new century / Sébastien Billioud
Conclusion: world harmony or harmonizing the world? / William A. Callahan.
China orders the world : normative soft power and foreign policy. ISBN 9781421403830. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.