Sublime

King Wen, who ruled for decades, nurtured the state’s power, implemented strong economic policies to foster the people’s welfare, and fashioned a strong reputation for Virtue.

Yang Zengxin, maintained autocratic control untrammeled by Beijing from 1911 until his death in 1928.

In a recent essay, Zhao gives us some insights about how the tianxia worldview emerged in the transition from the Shang to the Zhou dynasty at the beginning of the first millennium BCE. A limited power that succeeded a much larger empire, the Zhou dynasty devised a worldview to control the larger entity by making global politics a priority over the