Tianxia, Confucianism, and empire -- Tianxia and the invention of empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-Yu -- From empire to state: Kang Youwei, Confucian universalism, and unity / Wang Hui -- The Chinese world order and planetary sustainability / Prasenjit Duara -- Tianxia, cross-cultural learning, and cosmopolitanism -- The moral vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the great community / Ban Wang -- Greek antiquity, Chinese modernity, and the changing world order / Yiqun Zhou -- Realizing tianxia : traditional values and china's foreign policy / Daniel A. Bell -- Tianxia and socialist internationalism -- Tianxia and postwar Japanese Sinologists' vision of the Chinese Revolution : the cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy -- China's lost world of internationalism / Lin Chun -- China's tianxia worldings : socialist and postsocialist cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel -- Tianxia and its discontents -- The soft power of the constant soldier : or, why we should stop worrying and learn to love the PLA / Haiyan Lee -- Tracking tianxia : on intellectual self-positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen.