ABSTRACT
This chapter tackles the theories of global justice whose “Chinese-style” cosmopolitanism is espoused by the notion of tianxia. Specifically, first, I examine the Chinese-style cosmopolitanism driven by the reinterpretation of tianxia. By doing so, I claim that it retains the very fallacy that can be found in the liberal cosmopolitanism that fails to provide us with a regulative principle through which culturally and politically different justifications for justice can be steered to a democratic and non-dominating deliberation between states. Second, analyzing the notions of tianxia in the periphery surrounding China, mostly in Korea, I explore a conception of tianxia in which all countries are placed on an equal footing without any center. Finally, I will suggest a model of reciprocal non-domination in which non-domination as a regulative principle can help better establish a discursive stance between states without a central hegemon.
