Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Being and Becoming: The Many Portrayals of Yang Zhu 1
4. Five Pre-Republican Portrayals of Yang Zhu 19
5. From Warring States to Wei-Jin
6. Yang Zhu and Mozi as Critics of Unification Warfare 47
7. Beyond Mencius’s Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mozi 79
8. Deconstructing “Hedonism” 105
9. From Tang to Ming
10. Yang Zhu’s Role in Tang-Song Proto-daotong Discourse 135
11. Yang Zhu’s Role in the Construction of Zhu Xi’s Daotong 161
12. Plucking Hairs and Shaving Heads 191
13. From the Qing Dynasty Onward
14. The Birth of the Image of the “Egoist-Epicurean Philosopher” Yang Zhu during the Meiji Period 227
15. Struggling between Tradition and Modernity 259
16. Feng Youlan and Yang Zhu 289
17. Three Dimensions of Yang Zhu Research in the Twentieth Century 319
18. About the Contributors 341
19. Index 345