Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter One Introduction
I.Religious Beliefs Before Confucianism
II.The Tentative Yin-Yang Theory Before Confucianism
III.Political Beliefs Before Confucianism
IV.Philosophical Schools Contemporary with Confucianism
V.Origins of Confucianism
VI.Essential Features of Confucian Civilization
Chapter Two Master Kong and the Founding of Confucianism
I.Introduction
II.On Heaven and Spirits
III.On Government by Virtue
IV.On Rites and Rectification of Names
V.On Humanity and the Cultivation of One's Virtues
VI.On the Doctrine of the Mean
VII.On Knowledge
VIII.On Education
IX.The Evolution of Master Kong's Thinking on Rites, Rectification of Names, Humanity and the Mean
X.Early Explications and Spread of Confucianism by Master Kong's Disciples
Chapter Three The Five Confucian Classics
Chapter Four Divisions and Development of Confucianism During the Warring States Period
Chapter Five The Establishment of the Dominant Position of Confucianism and Its Amalgamtion with Other Thoughts in the Han Dynasty
Chapter Six The Decline of the Orthodox Confudanism and the Rise of Neo.Taoism-During the Period of the Wei-Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties
Chapter Seven The Revival of Confucianism During the Sui and Tang Dynasties
Chapter Eight Neo-Confudanism During the Northern Song Dynasty I.Introduction
Chapter Nine Development of Neo-Confudanism During the Early and Mid-Southern Song Dynasty
Chapter Ten Zhu xi,Lu Jiuyuan,and the Culminating Development of Neo-Confucianism in the Mid-Southern Song Perion
Chapter Eleven Schools of Utilitarianism in the Eastern Zhejiang and Their Debates with Zhu Xi
Chapter Twelve Neo-Confucianism of the Yuan Dynasty
Chapter Tirteen Neo-Confucianism of the Earyly Ming Period
Chapter Fourteen The Rise of the School of Mind Represented by Wang Shouren and Its Dissemination in the Mid-Ming Dynasty
Chapter Fifteen Criticism of Neo-Confucianism in the Mid-Ming Period
Chapter Sixteen Revival of Neo-Confucianism of the Cheng-Zhu School in the Late Ming Period
Chapter Seventeen The Practical Learning of the Late Ming and Early Qing Period
Chapter Eighteen The Decline of Neo-Confucianism and the Rise of the Han Learning of the Qingg Dynasty
Chapter Nineteen Modern-Script Classicism of the Late Qing Reformers
Chapter Twenty New Neo-Confucianism in the 20th Century
Chapter Twenty-One Confucianism on Today's Horizon
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