The ‘Kitsch’ of War

Hwang, Ching-Chane; Ling, L. H. M.

doi:10.1057/9780230617742_4

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Journeys beyond the West: World Orders and a 7th century Buddhist Monk

Ling¹

2010

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Novice Lee ('Frank') seeks world peace and thinks he has found it in the Liberal world order. He informs the Learned One, head of the monastery. Through their discussions, Frank discovers that the Liberal world order, despite its promises, offers neither 'democracy' nor 'peace'. Turning to the Confucian world order of 'all-under-heaven' (tianxia), they find it similarly top-down and one-way. Finally, Frank and the Learned One, now joined by their brother monks and sister nuns, consider the life of the 7th century monk, Xuanzang. He inspires Frank to imagine a 'worldly world order' where humility and learning drive one's engagements with others, rather than what we have today: hegemony and imperialism.

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Journeys beyond the West: World Orders and a 7th century Buddhist Monk

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2010

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Worlds beyond Westphalia: Daoist dialectics and the ‘China threat’

Ling¹

2013

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Discourse in the US/West that a rising China threatens world order serves no national interest or international purpose. It subscribes only to Westphalian anxieties about the Other. Drawing on Daoist dialectics, this article shows how we can reframe this issue by revealing the complicities that bind even seemingly intractable opposites, thereby undermining the rationale for violence. By recognising the ontological parity between (US/Western) Self and (Chinese/non-Western) Other, we may begin to shift IR/world politics from hegemony to engagement, the ‘tragedy’ of great power politics to the freedom of discovery and creativity.

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By Way of Conclusion

Ling

2016

Globalizing International Relations

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The ‘Kitsch’ of War

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Journeys beyond the West: World Orders and a 7th century Buddhist Monk

Journeys beyond the West: World Orders and a 7th century Buddhist Monk

Worlds beyond Westphalia: Daoist dialectics and the ‘China threat’

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