Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. I. Introductory Perspectives: The Conservative Idea and Chinese Realities
5. Notes on Conservatism in General and in China in Particular 3
6. Culture and Politics in Modern Chinese Conservatism 22
7. II National Essence
8. National Essence and the New Intelligentsia 57
9. Liu Shih-p'ei and National Essence 90
10. The Sage as Rebel; The Inner World of Chang Ping-lin 113
11. The Suicide of Liang Chi: An Ambiguous Case of Moral Conservatism 151
12. III. Political Modernization Against Revolutionary Politics
13. The Hung-hsien Emperor as a Modernizing Conservative 171
14. The Kuomintang in the 1930s 191
15. IV. The New Confucianism of the Post May Fourth Era
16. The Conservative as Sage: Liang Shu-ming 213
17. Hsiung Shih-li's Quest for Authentic Existence 242
18. New Confucianism and the Intellectual Crisis of Contemporary China 276
19. V. Modern Historicism and the Limits of Change
20. T'ao Hsi-sheng: The Social Limits of Ghange 305
21. Chou Tso-jen: A Scholar Who Withdrew 332
22. Contributors 359
23. Notes 361
24. Glossary 413
25. Index 419
26. HARVARD EAST ASIAN SERIES 427