pt. 1. "Consider the other more important than the self" : Liang Shuming's view of Confucian ethics / Chen Lai -- The basic form, actual form, and potential form of neo-Confucianism : considering the historical function and practical significance of neo-Confucianism / Liao Kebin -- Individual identification and the realm of moral character / Liu Dong -- Classical and modern readings of Laozi's Ziran / Liu Xiaogan -- The isomorphism of family and state and the integration of church and state : on the differences between the Confucian political tradition and democratic politics / Shih Yuan-Kang -- Confucian experience and philosophical discourse : reflections on some aporiae in contemporary neo-Confucianism / Joell Thoraval -- pt. 2. "Westernization" vs. "sinicization" : an eneffaceable paradox within China's modernization process / Yu Keping -- Contradictions within enlightenment ideas / Xu Jilin -- Rural reconstruction, the nation-state, and China's modernity problem : reflections on Liang Shuming's rural reconstruction theory and its practice / Lu Xinyu -- Who is afraid of Lu Xun? : the politics of "debates about Lu Xun" and the question of his legacy in post-Revolution China / Zhong Xueping -- Progress theory : the constraint on China's cultural Renaissance / He Qing --

pt. 3. "One and three, three and one" : the impact of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese modernity / Tang Shaojie -- Why did the Cultural Revolution end? / Han Shaogong -- A unique transcendence : Deng Xiaoping's China and Mao Zedong's China / Gong Yuzhi -- The impact of the Cultural Revolution on reform era political culture / Roderick MacFarquhar -- The influence of China's cultural tradition of revolution on reform-period conceptions of modernity / Cao Tian Yu -- The Chinese Revolution and the self identity of the Chinese nation / Lin Chun -- Comments on Gong Yuzhi's "A unique transcendence" and Roderick MacFarquhar's "The impact of the Cultural Revolution on reform-era political culture" / Lin Chun -- China's social transformation and two types of modernity / Gao Like -- Confusian Marxism and its implications in the current age of globalization / Chen Weigang -- The Cold War, imperial aesthetics, and area studies / Wang Ban -- Themes for China : modern arts, modern conflict / Marshall Berman.