24/06/2026
🏔️【新書推出】📢 New Release: Book Information
穿透「天下」的宏大論述，拆解當代地緣政治與數位治理的最新力作！💻🌐
國際學術大廠 Routledge 2026年6月隆重鉅獻！由中心主任劉紀蕙教授撰寫的《Tianxia and Its Discontents》，將徹底顛覆華人傳統的「天下」概念，深入剖析當代「數位天下」背後的權力與控制。
Tianxia and Its Discontents - Confucian Political Theology, Coloniality, and the Global Order
📖【新書資訊】
書名： Tianxia and Its Discontents - Confucian Political Theology, Coloniality, and the Global Order 🗺️
出版時間｜ 2026-06
作者｜ 劉紀蕙
出版社｜ Routledge
💡【簡介｜Introduction】
Across imperial histories and contemporary digital infrastructures, Tianxia and Its Discontents challenges the enduring assumption that the Chinese notion of tianxia—“all under heaven”—offers a benign or alternative vision of world order.
It argues instead that Tianxia operates as a colonial dispositif: a mode of power that organises space, hierarchy, and subjectivity while masking domination in the language of moral inclusion.
Rather than countering Western imperialism, Tianxia constitutes a parallel—and increasingly entangled—formation of global domination. In its contemporary mutations, it extends through biopolitics, the economisation of psyche, and regimes of algorithmic governance, where data infrastructures and predictive systems restructure life at a planetary scale. Beneath the rhetoric of harmony, connectivity, and development, the book exposes the emergence of a Digital Tianxia: an infrastructural empire sustained by extraction, illegality, and carceral control
across transnational zones.
Combining theoretical innovation with historically grounded analysis, the book makes a distinctive contribution by developing the concept of surplus (yu 餘) as a method of immanent critique, opening new pathways for rethinking coloniality, governance, and resistance. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students in global studies, political philosophy, Asian history, and media and technology studies, and is well suited for courses on geopolitics, digital governance, and postcolonial theory.
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購買資訊: https://www.routledge.com/Tianxi.../Liu/p/book/9781041045748 See less
🏔️【新書推出】📢 New Release: Book Information
穿透「天下」的宏大論述，拆解當代地緣政治與數位治理的最新力作！💻🌐
國際學術大廠 Routledge 2026年6月隆重鉅獻！由中心主任劉紀蕙教授撰寫的《Tianxia and Its Discontents》，將徹底顛覆華人傳統的「天下」概念，深入剖析當代「數位天下」背後的權力與控制。
Tianxia and Its Discontents - Confucian Political Theology, Coloniality, and the Global Order
*中心子計畫二研究成果*
https://iccs.chss.nycu.edu.tw/zh/re.php?USN=8
📖【新書資訊】
書名：
Tianxia and Its Discontents - Confucian Political Theology, Coloniality, and the Global Order 🗺️
出版時間｜ 2026-06
作者｜ 劉紀蕙
出版社｜ Routledge
💡【簡介｜Introduction】
Across imperial histories and contemporary digital infrastructures, Tianxia and Its Discontents challenges the enduring assumption that the Chinese notion of tianxia—“all under heaven”—offers a benign or alternative vision of world order.
It argues instead that Tianxia operates as a colonial dispositif: a mode of power that organises space, hierarchy, and subjectivity while masking domination in the language of moral inclusion.
Rather than countering Western imperialism, Tianxia constitutes a parallel—and increasingly entangled—formation of global domination. In its contemporary mutations, it extends through biopolitics, the economisation of psyche, and regimes of algorithmic governance, where data infrastructures and predictive systems restructure life at a planetary scale. Beneath the rhetoric of harmony, connectivity, and development, the book exposes the emergence of a Digital Tianxia: an infrastructural empire sustained by extraction, illegality, and carceral control
across transnational zones.
Combining theoretical innovation with historically grounded analysis, the book makes a distinctive contribution by developing the concept of surplus (yu 餘) as a method of immanent critique, opening new pathways for rethinking coloniality, governance, and resistance. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students in global studies, political philosophy, Asian history, and media and technology studies, and is well suited for courses on geopolitics, digital governance, and postcolonial theory.
【9月底前輸入折扣碼26ESA2可獲的20%折扣】
購買資訊: https://www.routledge.com/Tianxia-and-Its-Discontents-Confucian-Political-Theology-Coloniality-and-the-Global-Order/Liu/p/book/9781041045748
