Ideas Across Cultures

Essays on Chinese Thought in Honor of Benjamin I. Schwartz

Edited by Paul A. Cohen

Edited by Merle Goldman

    • Contributors
    • Introduction Paul A. Cohen and Merle Goldman

      Part One: Thought

    1. Some Reflections on the Problems of the Axial-Age Breakthrough in Relation to Classical Confucianism Hao Chang
    2. A Language of Continuity in Confucian Thought Don J. Wyatt
    3. Yan Fu’s Utilitarianism in Chinese Perspective Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

      4. Part Two: Literature and Culture

    4. The Moral World of Hebei Village Opera David Arkush
    5. In Search of Modernity Some Reflections on a New Mode of Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Chinese History and Literature Leo Ou-fan Lee
    6. The Cultural Choices of Zhang Xinxin, A Young Writer of the 1980s Jeffrey C. Kinkley

      7. Part Three: Political Theory

    7. A “Theology” of Liberation? Socialist Revolution and Spiritual Regeneration in Chinese and Japanese Marxism Germaine A. Hoston
    8. Constitutional Alternatives and Democracy in the Revolution of 1911 Don C. Price

      9. Part Four: Culture and Methodology

    9. Continuities Between Modern and Premodern China: Some Neglected Methodological and Substantive Issues Thomas A. Metzger
    10. The Place of Values In Cross-Cultural Studies: The Example of Democracy and China Andrew J. Nathan
    • Notes
    • Index
  • Cover: Ideas Across Cultures
  • A photo of the author

Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.