Contents
Translator’s Preface to the English Version
PART 1 IDEOLOGY OF THE PRE-QIN PERIOD
Introduction to the Society and Ideology of the Pre-Qin
Period
Chapter 1 Chinese Ideology from the Earliest Times to the
Spring and Autumn Period
1. The Germination of Ideology in the Primitive Society Before
the Xia Dynasty
2. Ideology from the Xia Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn
Period
3. Confucius and the Early Confucians
Chapter 2 Ideology of the Warring States Period (1)
1. Ideology of the Early Mohists
2. The Ideology of Yang Zhu
3. The Ideology of Mencius
4. The Ideology of Xun Zi
5. The Ideology of the Yin-Yang School
6. The Ideology of the Legalist School
Chapter 3 Ideology of the Warring States Period (11)
1. The Ideology of the Taoist School--Lao Zi, Song Xing and
Yin Wen
2. The Ideology of the Taoist School--Zhuang Zi
3. The Ideology of the Dialecticians
4. The Ideology of the Strategists--Sun Wu, Wu Qi and Sun
Bin
5. The Merging of the Hundred Schools and the LU ’s Spring and
Autumn Annals
Chapter 4 Economic, Scientific, Historical and Literary
Ideas in Ancient Times
1. Economic Ideas in Ancient Times
2. Scientific Ideas in Ancient Times
3. Historical Ideas in Ancient Times
4. Literary Ideas in Ancient Times
PART 11 IDEOLOGY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
General Sketch of the Early Middle Ages
Chapter 5 Ideology in the Qin and Han Period
1. The Autocratic Ideas of the Qin Dynasty
2. The Taoist Ideology in the Early Han Period
3. Dong Zhongshu and the Spread of Theological Ideas
4. Wang Chong and the Ideological Current of the Later Han
Dynasty
5. Revolutionary Ideas of the Peasants Uprisings in Qin and
Han
Chapter 6 Economic Thoughts in the Han Period
1. The Economic Thoughts of Jia Yi and Chao Cuo
2. The Economic Thoughts of Sang Hongyang
3. The Economic Reforms of Wang Mang
4. Economic Thoughts in the Eastern Han
Chapter 7 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas in
the Han Period
1. Scientific Ideas in the Han Period
2. Historiographic Ideas in the Han Period
3. Literary Ideas in the Han Period
Chapter 8 Ideology in the Wei, Jin and Southern and
Northern Dynasties
1. Political Thoughts in the Wei and Jin
2. The Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Currents in the
Wei and Jin
3. Buddhist and Taoist Thoughts and the Anti-Buddhist Cur-
rent
4. The Formation and Propagation of Taoism
Chapter 9 Economic Thoughts in the Wei, Jin and Southern
and Northern Dynasties
1. The Economic Thoughts of Fu Xuan
2. Lu Bao’s On the God of Money
3. The Distribution of Farmland in Western Jin
4. The Farmland Policy of Northern Wei
Chapter 10 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas
in the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties
1. Scientific Ideas
2. Historiographic Ideas
3. Literary Ideas
Chapter 11 Political and Philosophical Thoughts in the Sui,
Tang and Five Dynasties
1. Political Thoughts in Sui and Early Tang
2. Buddhism, Taoism and the Anti-Buddhist Current
3. The Thoughts of Han Yu and Li Ao
4. The Thoughts of Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi
5. Revolutionary Ideas and Progressive Ideologues
Chapter 12 Economic Thoughts in the Tang Period
1. The Economic Thoughts of Liu Yan
2. The Economic Thoughts of Yang Yan
Chapter 13 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas
in the Sui and Tang Dynasties
1. Scientific Ideas
2. Historiographic Ideas
3. Literary Ideas
PART III IDEOLOGY IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
General Sketch of the Later Middle Ages
Chapter 14 Philosophical and Religious Thoughts in the
Song and Yuan Dynasties
1. Neo-Confucianism of the Cheng-Zhu School
2. Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan
3. Zhang Zai and the Guan School
4. Utilitarian Ideas of Chen Liang and Ye Shi
5. Taoist Thoughts in Song and Yuan
Chapter 15 Social Thoughts in the Song and Yuan Period
1. Social Thoughts of Li Gou and Deng Mu
2. Wang Anshi and His Ideas of Reform
3. Peasants’ Revolutionary Ideas in Song and Yuan
Chapter 16 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas
in Song and Yuan
1. Scientific Ideas in Song and Yuan
2. Historiographic Ideas in Song and Yuan
3. Literary Ideas in Song and Yuan
Chapter 17 Philosophical Thoughts in the Ming and Qing
Dynasties
1. Wang Yangming and His School
2. The Philosophy of Wang Fuzhi
3. The Philosophy of Dai Zhen
Chapter 18 Political and Social Thoughts in the Ming and
Qing Dynasties
1. Huang Zongxi and Tang Zhen
2. Gu Yanwu, Yan Yuan and Li Gong
3. The High Tide of Han Learning in the Qing Period
4. Economic Thoughts in Ming and Qing
5. Peasants’ Revolutionary Ideas in Late Ming
Chapter 19 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas
in Ming and Qing
1. Scientific Ideas and the Introduction of Western Knowledge
2. Historiographic Ideas in Ming and Qing
3. Thoughts in the Literary Works of Ming and Qing
PART IV CHINESE IDEOLOGY IN MODERN TIMES
Preliminary Remarks on Modern Society and Modern Ideol-
ogy
Chapter 20 Ideology in the Time of the Opium War and the
Taiping Rebellion
1. Ideological Trends in the Time of the Opium War
2. Ideology of the Taiping Movement
Chapter 21 Ideology in the 1870s and 1890s
1. Birth of the Early New Learning School
2. Guo Songtao and the New Learning School
3. Ideology of the Early New Learning School
Chapter 22 Ideology of the Reform Movement of 1898
1. The Reform Movement and the Thought of Kang Youwei
2. The Thought of Tan Citong
3. The Thought of Liang Qichao
4. The Thought of Yan Fu
Chapter 23 Thougbt at the Time of the 1911 Revolution
1. Democratic Revolutionary Ideology Before the Revolution
2. The Development of Sun Yat-sen’s Thought
3. Schools of Thought and Ideological Struggles Following the
1911 Revolution
4. The New Culture Movement on the Eve of the May Fourth
Movement
Chapter 24 Modern Social, Economic, Scientific, Historio-
graphic and Literary Thoughts
1. Modern Social and Economic Thoughts
2. Modern Scientific Thoughts
3. Modern Historiographic Thoughts
4. Modern Literary Thoughts
The Idea ofNatural Rights in China: A Historical Perspective
Chronological Table of Chinese Dynasties
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index