• Preface
• Introduction
I. Intellectual and Institutional Resources

1. Confucian Education in Premodern East Asia W.M. Theodore De Bary
2. Reflections on Civil Society and Civility in the Chinese Intellectual Tradition Edward Shils
3. The Intellectual Heritage of the Confucian Ideal of Ching-shih Chang Had
4. Confucian Ideals and the Real World: A Critical Review of Contemporary Neo-Confucian Thought Liu Shu-Hsien

II. Japan

5. "They Are Almost the Same as the Ancient Three Dynasties": The West as Seen through Confucian Eyes in Nineteenth-Century Japan Watanabe Hiroshi
6. Confucianism and the Japanese State, 1904-1945 Samuel Hideo Yamashita
7. The Japanese (Confucian) Family: The Tradition from the Bottom Up Robert J. Smith
8. Some Observations on the Transformation of Confucianism (and Buddhism) in Japan S. N. Eisenstadt

III. South Korea and Taiwan

9. Confucianism in Contemporary Korea Koh Byong-ik
10. The Reproduction of Confucian Culture in Contemporary Korea: An Anthropological Study Kim Kwang-ok
11. State Confucianism and Its Transformation: The Restructuring of the State-Society Relation in Taiwan Ambrose Y. C. King
12. Civil Society in Taiwan: The Confucian Dimension Thomas B. Gold

IV. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Overseas Chinese Communities

13. The Transformation of Confucianism in the Post-Confucian Era: The Emergence of Rationalistic Traditionalism in Hong Kong Ambrose Y. C. King
14. Promoting Confucianism for Socioeconomic Development: The Singapore Experience John Wong
15. Confucianism as Political Discourse in Singapore: The Case of an Incomplete Revitalization Movement Eddie C. Y. Kuo
16. Societal Transformation and the Contribution of Authority Relations and Cooperation Norms in Overseas Chinese Business S. Gordon Redding
17. Overseas Chinese Capitalism Gary G. Hamilton
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Glossary
• Contributors
• Index

Tu Wei-ming is Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy, Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.