Table of contents : Contents Series Editors’ Preface Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Destinies and Prospects of the Confucian Traditions in Modern East Asia PART I: Classical Confucianism and Its Modern Reinterpretations 1. Mou Zongsan’s Interpretation of Confucianism: Some Hermeneutical Reflections 2. Modern New Confucians on the Religiousness of Confucianism PART II: Neo-Confucianism in China and Korea 3. The Debate on Ren between Zhu Xi and Huxiang Scholars 4. The Four-Seven Debate between Yi Toegye and Gi Gobong and Its Philosophical Purport PART III: Ethics and Politics 5. Wang Yangming’s Philosophy and Modern Theories of Democracy: A Reconstructive Interpretation 6. Confucianism, Kant, and Virtue Ethics 7. A Critique of Jiang Qing’s “Political Confucianism” Notes Bibliography Index