Searching for an Alternative Global Order:The Qing Tributary System and the Mechanism of Guanxi

• 作者: Viktor Eszterhai
• 来源期刊: 复旦人文社会科学论丛:英文版
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: GUANXI CHINESE TRIBUTARY System CHINESE school of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS theory Non-Western INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（4）
• 页码范围: 499-513
• 页数: 15页
• 分类号: C

摘要

In recent years,the Chinese leadership has openly argued that the inter- national community has to exceed the dominance of the Western-based rules in international relations,since in the last two centuries these rules have become globally accepted,China's claim seems to be a hardly imaginable vision.However, according to some scholars'view,there is a possible historical alternative for the international order,the so-called Chinese Tributary System,which once bounded the East and Southeast Asian states together.The present study examines whether the mainstream schools of the International Relations Theory provide an appropriate tool to understand the characteristics of this system.The study argues that the culturally based "guanxi model"can supply a better explanatory framework to understand the inner logic and the working mechanism of the Tributary System.