Acknowledgments
A Note on Language
Preface: My Father
Hsu Woochun (Xu Wujun)
Introduction
David Elstein
Part I: Autographical Essays
1. My Life of Study
2. The End of Democratic Review
3. Mourning My Enemy, Mourning My Friend
Part II: Ethical and Political Thought
4. Two Layers of the Chinese Political Problem
5. The Construction and Advancement of Ruist Political Thought
6. The Fundamental Character of the Ruist Spirit, Its Limitations,
and Its Rebirth
7. The Chinese Way of Governance—After Reading Collected Writings
of Master Lu Xuan
8. Between Academia and Politics
9. The Culture of the Heart‑Mind
10. The Creation of the Chinese Free Society
11. The Ruist Distinction between Cultivating Oneself and Governing
Others and Its Significance
12. Why Oppose Liberalism?
13. The Fundamental Structure of Mengzi's Political Thought and the
Problem of Rule of Man and Rule of Law
14. The Origin of Kongzi's Idea of Rule by Virtue
15. The Question of Ruist and Daoist Personal Cultivation in
Literature
Notes
References
Index
David Elstein is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the editor of Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy and the author of Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy.
"As a historian, I found that the three autobiographical essays in
the volume offered a fascinating portrait of Xu as an exiled
intellectual grappling with questions of identity, culture, and the
Chinese nation, under the conditions of exile and estrangement from
both Nationalist and Communist Chinas … this volume promises to be
a useful teaching resource and introduction to intellectual debates
in the 1950s and 1960s Sinosphere, especially among Chinese
Confucian scholars who were writing from a place of exile." —
Joshua Tan, Reading Religion
"One of the most prominent representatives of contemporary New
Confucianism, Xu Fuguan also represents how a Chinese intellectual
deeply committed to Chinese cultural heritage can embrace the core
values of democracy. Being the first book-length English
translation of Xu's works, this volume fills an important gap." —
Peimin Ni, author of Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New
Translation of Lunyu with Annotations
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