Thinking and Constructing of the "Tian Xia": A Sociological Perspective
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Abstract
The View of "Tian Xia" has been the universal passion from the standpoint of the intellectual in China. With the beginning of evolutionism, the traditional "Tian Xia" view has to undergo the process of reconstruction. "Tian Xia" has multiple meanings: holiness, identity, orderliness, liberty, social temporality-spatiality. The Structure of "Tian Xia" has been public essentially. The structuralization of "Tian Xia" has two mechanisms including virtue-based government and harmony government.
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