Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I
6. 1 The Chinese Challenge to Historical Sociology 15
7. Part II Imaginaries, Continuities, and Imaginary Continuities
8. 2 China in Eurasia 75
9. 3 Early Modern Periodizations and Their Philosophical Consequences 95
10. 4 The Preconceived Empire 119
11. Part III Civilization, Modernization, and Normativity
12. 5 China’s Path to Modernization 147
13. 6 Árnason, Modern Confucianism, and the Cultural Conditionality of Modernization 169
14. 7 Multiple Modernities 185
15. Part IV Toward Constructive Engagements
16. 8 Chinese Civilizational Identity 209
17. 9 The Politics of Sincerity, or, Why Is the Legacy of Pre-Qin Confucianism Worth Fighting For? 231
18. 10 Tribunals, Trials, and Windows 267
19. List of Contributors 297
20. INDEX 301