1. Introductory perspectives: the conservative idea and Chinese realities: Notes on conservatism in general and in China in particular / Benjamin I. Schwartz --
Culture and politics in modern Chinese conservatism / Charlotte Furth --
2. National essence: National essence and the new intelligentsia / Laurence A. Schneider --
Liu Shih-pe̓i and national essence / Martin Bernal --
The sage as rebel: the inner world of Chang Ping-lin / Charlotte Furth --
The suicide of Liang Chi: an ambiguous case of moral conservatism / Lin Yü-sheng --
3. Political modernization against revolutionary politics: The Hung-hsien emperor as a modernizing conservative / Ernest P. Young --
The Kuomintang in the 1930s / Lloyd E. Eastman --
4. The new Confucianism of the post May fourth era: The conservative as sage: Liang Shu-ming / Guy Alitto --
Hsiung Shih-li's quest for authentic existence / Tu Wei-ming --
New Confucianism and the intellectual crisis of contemporary China / Hao Chang --
5. Modern historicism and the limits of change: Ta̓o Hsi-sheng: the social limits of change / Arif Dirlik --
Chou Tso-jen: a scholar who withdrew / David E. Pollard.
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