TY - BOOK AU - Murthy,Viren TI - The “tianxia” according to Zhao Tingyang: The world order from Confucius to Mao PY - 2023///. N1 - 86 N2 - In today’s chaotic world, there is a current within Chinese Confucianism that attempts, to design a new world order for the future in the terms of tianxia (“all under heaven”), a traditional vision of the world/China, which dates back to early Chinese history. Through comparisons with Marxist perspectives, this article draws out the essential points of tianxia theory and reveals the terms and stakes of debates and questions around this theory. What does such a millenarian philosophy teach us? Should we understand it as an alternative to Marxism or would it be possible to rethink it in terms of a critique of imperialism? With these questions in mind, this article discusses the important contemporary Confucian tianxia theorist, Zhao Tingyang UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-actuel-marx-2023-1-page-64?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -