Zhao Tingyang

Zhao Tingyang (; born 1961 in Guangdong, China) is a philosopher credited with modernising the ancient Chinese concept of Tianxia.
Biography.
Zhao Tingyang graduated from Renmin University of China and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and is now a professor in the Institute of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and is a senior fellow of Peking University Berggruen Research Institute.
His works are mainly on metaphilosophy, ethics and political philosophy.
In 2005, he published 'The Tianxia System: An Introduction to the Philosophy of a World Institution'. His book 'Investigations of the Bad World: Political Philosophy as First Philosophy' was published in 2009.