Author-Meets-Readers Shuchen Xiang in Conversation with Sungmoon Kim, Bryan W. Van Norden and Don J. Wyatt
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This author-meets-readers discussion centers Shuchen Xiang’s synopsis of her recent book Chinese
Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea (2023a), which argues against
assumptions that European global colonization and racial atrocities were consequences of human
nature. Sungmoon Kim, Bryan W. Van Norden and Don J. Wyatt engage with Xiang about her thesis
that historical China upheld a worldview that underscored cross-cultural exchange, mutual flourishing, and
growth through cultural encounter. This worldview did not drive it to colonize the world. In contrast, its
European counterpart fought difference and therefore sought to conquer the world.
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