Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation 9780824860233

Table of contents :
Contents
Editor’s Preface
Dynastic Periods in Chinese History
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Neo-Confucianism, 1000–1400
CHAPTER 1. Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism
CHAPTER 2. Neo-Confucian Education
Part II. The Great Learning and the Eight Steps to Personal Cultivation
CHAPTER 3. The First Five Steps of Personal Cultivation
CHAPTER 4. The Three Steps of Social Development
Part III. Self-Cultivation Upgrades: The Fifteenth Century through the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER 5. Reforms in Neo-Confucianism: The Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
CHAPTER 6. The Nineteenth-Century Synthesis in Confucian Learning
Legacies
Appendix: Chronology of Works and Thinkers with the Sequence for Reading the Four Books Indicated
Notes
Further Readings
Index
About the Author