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Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The China Order -- Arrangement of the Book -- Chapter 1. The Centralia: The Origin and the Basics -- The Chinese Nomenclature: More than Just Semantics -- China as a World: Ecogeography Shapes the Mind -- The Chinese Peoples and the Chinese Multination -- History and the Writing of History in China -- The Precondition: The Pre-Qin China -- The Glory and Peacefulness of the Warring States -- Chapter 2. The Qin-Han Polity and Chinese World Empire -- Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism -- The Qin Polity: The Chinese Totalitarianism -- The Qin Tianxia: A World Empire Order -- The Qin-Han Polity and the China Order -- The Fused Confucianism-Legalism -- The Consolidation and Expansion of the China Order -- The Recurrence of the China Order and the Great East-West Divergence -- The Evolution and Refinement of the China Order -- From the Second Great Disunion to the Ultimate China Order -- The Qing World Empire -- Chapter 3. The Forsaken Turn: The Song Era -- The Song: An Uncommon Qin-Han Empire -- Song's Chinese World -- Chanyuan System: A New World Order for Eastern Eurasia -- Chanyuan Treaty: The Chinese Peace of Westphalia -- The Chanyuan System in the Chinese Mind -- The Splendid Song: The Chinese World under the Chanyuan System -- Song Era: The Peak of Ancient Chinese Civilization -- Chapter 4. The China Order: An Assessment -- The China Order: The Characteristics -- Totality -- Universality -- Hierarchy -- Dualities -- Control -- Hypocrisy and Duplicity -- Efficacy -- Longevity -- The China Order versus the Westphalia System -- Ideal Governance for the Rulers at Exorbitant Expense -- Great Incompatibility and Long Stagnation -- Deadly Sisyphus, Inescapable Inferno -- Why the Stagnation: A Pausing Note on Monopoly -- Chapter 5. The Century of Humiliation and Progress