Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Preface Abbreviations A Note on Romanization and Chinese Characters Part I Meeting Confucius 1
1. Pound and Confucius: A Historical Confrontation 3
1.1 The Perplexing Ideological Environment 4
1.2 The Unfavorable Intellectual Environment 8
2. Pound’s Conversion to Confucianism 10
2.1 Pound’s Denunciation of Christianity 11
2.2 Becoming a Confucian Poet 17
Part II Pound’s Confucianism 23
3. Pound’s Ideas on Man and Self 25
3.1 Pound’s Zhi Ren 知人 25
3.2 Pound’s Self-cultivation 36
3.3 Becoming a Man with Ren 仁 44
4. Pound’s Ethics on Man and Society 52
4.1 Establishing the Order in the Family — Xiao Ti 孝悌 53
4.2 Establishing Social Orders — Li， Yi 礼， 义 61
4.3 The Root: Ben 本 73
5. Pound’s Ethics on Man and Nature 77
5.1 Pound’s Tao 道 and Nature 77
5.2 The Union with Nature 84
5.3 The Transcendental Power: “Their Sealed Order” 92
5.4 Man in Nature: Jing， Cheng 敬， 诚 95
Part III Pound’s Confucianism and the Modern World 101
6. Pound’s Confucianism as a Remedy for Western Disease 103
7. The Legacy of Pound’s Confucianism 106
7.1 Poundian Scholarship 106
7.2 Confucian Scholarship 111
7.3 Amateur Readers 113
Conclusions — Reconsidering Pound’s Confucianism in the 21st Century 118
Glossary 124
References 126
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