Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editor’s Preface ix
4. Dynastic Periods in Chinese History xv
5. Preface xvii
6. Acknowledgments xix
7. Introduction xxi
8. Part I. Neo-Confucianism, 1000–1400
9. CHAPTER 1. Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism 3
10. CHAPTER 2. Neo-Confucian Education 20
11. Part II. The Great Learning and the Eight Steps to Personal Cultivation
12. CHAPTER 3. The First Five Steps of Personal Cultivation 37
13. CHAPTER 4. The Three Steps of Social Development 61
14. Part III. Self-Cultivation Upgrades: The Fifteenth Century through the Nineteenth Century
15. CHAPTER 5. Reforms in Neo-Confucianism: The Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries 75
16. CHAPTER 6. The Nineteenth-Century Synthesis in Confucian Learning 87
17. Legacies 109
18. Appendix: Chronology of Works and Thinkers with the Sequence for Reading the Four Books Indicated 113
19. Notes 115
20. Further Readings 119
21. Index 125
22. About the Author 133