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Introduction -- Pattern and vital stuff -- Nature -- Heartmind -- Emotions -- Knowing -- Self-cultivation -- Virtues -- Governance and institutions -- The enduring significance of Neo-Confucianism -- Teaching Neo-Confucianism topically -- Table of Neo-Confucians

"The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing movement (Hanfu yundong), a neo-traditionalist and majority racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic "Great Han" and corresponding "real China" through pseudo-traditional ethnic dress, reinvented Confucian ritual, and anti-foreign sentiment. Employing close analysis of movement ideas and practices, this book finds that the movement's "real China," envisioning a pure, perfectly ordered, ethnically homogeneous, and secure society, is in fact an imaginary vision constructed in response to the challenging realities of the present. Yet this national imaginary is reproduced precisely through its own perpetual elusiveness. The Great Han is a pioneering analysis of Han identity, nationalism, and social movements in a rapidly changing China."--Provided by publisher

Buddhism and Confucianism: Accommodation and Conflict -- Confucianism and Catholicism: Conflict and Assimilation -- Protestantism and Korean Religions: Exclusion and Assimilation -- Confucianism, Christianity, and the Challenges of the Modern World

Introduction: Perceptions of failure -- The missionary impulse -- Responding to failure -- Missionary optimism -- A fractured landscape -- Order out of chaos -- Falling in love with Confucius -- Unfulfilled promises -- Fruits of the spirit -- Conclusion: Failure and success

"This book examines democracy in recent Chinese-language philosophical work. It focuses on Confucian-inspired political thought in the Chinese intellectual world from after the communist revolution in China until today. The volume analyzes six significant contemporary Confucian philosophers in China and Taiwan, describing their political thought and how they connect their thought to Confucian tradition, and critiques their political proposals and views. It illustrates how Confucianism has transformed in modern times, the divergent understandings of Confucianism today, and how contemporary Chinese philosophers understand democracy, as well as their criticisms of Western political thought. "--

Preliminary Material -- 1 Confucian Rituals in Late Imperial Chinese State and Society -- 2 History at the Periphery: Tingzhou and Sibao -- 3 Who Are Lisheng? -- 4 Lisheng and Their Rituals -- 5 The Creation of a Lineage Society -- 6 Rites, Land, and Lineages -- 7 Community Compacts, Village Rituals, and Local Society -- 8 Gods, Ancestors, and Demons -- 9 Temples, Markets, and Village Identity -- 10 Locating Rituals in Time and Space -- 1 Jinshi (Metropolitan Graduates) in Late Imperial Tingzhou -- 2 Lisheng and the Rituals Performed by Them in Tingzhou -- 3 Fifty Sibao Jiwenben (I): Basic Facts -- 4 Fifty Sibao Jiwenben (II): Breakdown of Contents -- 5 Five Prohibitions of the Shangbao Compact -- 6 Villages and Surnames in Sibao -- 7 Temples and Gods in the Sibao Basin -- 8 Gods and Texts Dedicated to Them in Three Sibao Jiwenben -- Bibliography -- Index.

1. Extended families and the triumph of Confucianism -- 2. The narratives: origins and uses -- 3. Accounts of filial offspring: models for emulation -- 4. Filial miracles and the survival of correlative Confucianism -- 5. Reverent caring -- 6. "Exceeding the rites": mourning and burial motifs -- 7. Filial daughters or surrogate sons?