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Abstract
This is a transcript of a dialogue between faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the renowned "new leftist" Chinese intellectual, Wang Hui. The immediate theme of the discussion concerned the two major socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, namely the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Wang Hui's recent work asks how these revolutions and their associated processes problematize typically Eurocentric assumptions about "modernity." Relatedly, there has been a recent tendency to subsume the Soviet Union and Mao's China under the history of capitalism. Such revisionist readings of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions echo earlier Marxist arguments about "actually existing" socialism being a form of state capitalism. The various discussants develop different positions on this issue, but they in general affirm the idea that the socialist revolutions partially succeeded in creating an alternative to capitalism, and this legacy continues to be meaningful to our social imagination.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I - Chinese and American Pragmatisms -- Chapter 1 - John Dewey: Exemplar of the Democratic Public Intellectual -- Chapter 2 - The Core of Pragmatism and Its Echo in Chinese Philosophy -- Chapter 3 - Pragmatism and Confucian Empiricism -- Chapter 4 - Harmony in the Arts: The Sense of Communication in Confucian and Deweyan Aesthetics -- Chapter 5 - Hu Shi, Pragmatism, and Confucianism -- Chapter 6 - Confucianism and Pragmatism: The Intrinsic Philosophical Themes and Their Diverse Developments -- Chapter 7 - Toward a Social Philosophy: Dewey's Newly Restored China Lectures -- Part II - Confucianism, Deweyan Pragmatism, and a New Geopolitical Order -- Chapter 8 - Pragmatist Political Economy: Toward a Deweyan Paradigm of Deep Democracy for Times of Global Crisis -- Chapter 9 - On the Cusp of a New World Order? A Dialogue between Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism -- Chapter 10 - Takeuchi Yoshimi and Deweyan Democracy in Postwar Japan -- Chapter 11 - The Intrinsic Values of Confucian Democracy and Dewey's Pragmatist Method -- Chapter 12 - A Democratic Research University with Chinese Characteristics: John Dewey and the Confucian Educational Tradition -- Chapter 13 - Governing as Predicament Resolution: Enhancing Equity and Diversity as Relational Values and Public Goods -- Chapter 14 - To Be Humane (Ren 仁) Is to Humanize: Being and Becoming in the Digital Age.

"Tianxia--conventionally translated as "all-under-Heaven"--in everyday Chinese parlance simply means "the world." But tianxia is also a geopolitical term found in canonical writings that has a deeper historical and philosophical significance. Although there are many understandings of tianxia in this literature, interpretations within the Chinese process cosmology generally begin with an ecological understanding of intra-national relations that acknowledge the mutuality and interdependence of all economic and political activity. This volume contextualizes the tianxia vision of geopolitical order within a variety of strategies drawn from a broad spectrum of cultures and peoples: Buddhist, Islamic, Indian, African, Confucian, European. The conversation among the contributors is guided by several central questions: Is tianxia the only model of cosmopolitanism? Are there ideas and ideals comparable to tianxia that exist in other cultures? What alternative perspectives of global justice have inspired Western, Indian, Islamic, Buddhist, and African cultural traditions? The fundamental premise here is that in order for a planetary tianxia system to be relevant and significant for the present time and for our vision of the future, it must acknowledge the plurality of moral ideals defining the world's cultures while at the same time seek practical ways to formulate a minimalist morality that can provide the solidarity needed to bring the world's people together"--