Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

Acknowledgments

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Contributors

pp.：  11 – 12

Introduction

pp.：  13 – 30

Part I

pp.：  31 – 32

“Consider the Other More Important than the Self ”: Liang Shuming’s View of Confucian Ethics

pp.：  33 – 56

The Basic Form, Actual Form, and Potential Form of Neo-Confucianism: Considering the Historical Function and Practical Significance of Neo-Confucianism

pp.：  57 – 76

Individual Identification and the Realm of Moral Character

pp.：  77 – 86

Classical and Modern Readings of Laozi’s Ziran

pp.：  87 – 108

The Isomorphism of Family and State and the Integration of Church and State: On the Differences between the Confucian Political Tradition and Democratic Politics

pp.：  109 – 130

Confucian Experience and Philosophical Discourse: Reflections on Some Aporiae in Contemporary Neo-Confucianism

pp.：  131 – 162

Part II

pp.：  163 – 164

“Westernization” vs. “Sinicization”: An Ineffaceable Paradox within China’s Modernization Process

pp.：  165 – 208

Contradictions within Enlightenment Ideas

pp.：  209 – 246

Rural Reconstruction, the Nation-State and China’s Modernity Problem: Reflections on Liang Shuming’s Rural Reconstruction Theory and Its Practice

pp.：  247 – 268

Who is Afraid of Lu Xun? The Politics of “Debates about Lu Xun” (Lu Xun Lun Zheng) and the Question of His Legacy in Post-Revolution China

pp.：  269 – 296

Progress Theory: The Constraint on China’s Cultural Renaissance

pp.：  297 – 308

Part III

pp.：  309 – 310

“One and Three, Three and One”: The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese Modernity

pp.：  311 – 326

Why Did the Cultural Revolution End?

pp.：  327 – 340

A Unique Transcendence: Deng Xiaoping’s China and Mao Zedong’s China

pp.：  341 – 354

The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Reform Era Political Culture

pp.：  355 – 366

The Influence of China’s Cultural Tradition of Revolution on Reform-Period Conceptions of Modernity

pp.：  367 – 370

The Chinese Revolution and the Self Identity of the Chinese Nation

pp.：  371 – 382

Comments on Gong Yuzhi’s “A Unique Transcendence” and Roderick MacFarquhar’s “The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Reform-Era Political Culture”

pp.：  383 – 386

China’s Social Transformation and Two Types of Modernity

pp.：  387 – 396

Confucian Marxism and Its Implications in the Current Age of Globalization

pp.：  397 – 420

The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies

pp.：  421 – 444

Themes for China: Modern Arts, Modern Conflict

pp.：  445 – 448

Index

pp.：  449 – 459