The Sage and the People The Confucian Revival in China
- New York Oxford University Press 2015
- viii, 332 p.
Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part 1 - Jiaohua: The Confucian revival in China as an educative project ; Chapter 1. Confucian education during the 20th century: A retrospective outlook ; Chapter 2. The new institutionalization of Confucian education ; Chapter 3. A modern anti-intellectualism: The body, the child, the people ; Part 2 - Anshen liming or the religious dimension of Confucianism ; Chapter 4. "The varieties of religious experience" ; Chapter 5. Questioning modern categories ; Chapter 6. The quest for the recognition of Confucian religion ; Part 3 - Between rites and politics: Lijiao ; Chapter 7. The Confucius cult: Historical retrospective ; Chapter 8. Qufu, 2007 ; Chapter 9. The use and abuse of Confucius ; Chapter 10. Between religious ritual and political ceremonial: Cosmology and national state ; Conclusion ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index