1. Introduction: Fluidity of the Confucian Canon and Discursive Strategies
On-Cho Ng and Kai-Wing Chow
2. A Problematic Model: The Han "Orthodox Synthesis," Then and Now
Michael Nylan
3. The Formulation of Early Medieval Confucian Metaphysics: Huang K'an's (488545) Accommodation of Neo-Taoism and Buddhism
Yuet Keung Lo
4. Military Governance versus Civil Governance: A Comparison of the Old History and the New History of the Five Dynasties
Tze-Ki Hon
5. Strategies in Neo-Confucian Heresiography
John B. Henderson
6. "Goodness Unbound": Wang Yang-ming and the Redrawing of the Boundary of Confucianism
Kandice Hauf
7. Between Canonicity and Heterodoxy: Hermeneutical Moments of the Great Learning (Ta-hsueh)
Kai-Wing Chow
8. Negotiating the Boundary between Hermeneutics and Philosophy in Early Ch'ing Ch'eng-Chu Confucianism: Li Kuang-ti's (16421718) Study of the Doctrine of the Mean (Chung-yung) and Great Learning (Ta-hsueh)
On-Cho Ng
9. Treading the Weedy Path: T'ang Chen (16301704) and the World of the Confucian Middlebrow
Hsiung Ping-Chen
10. Discovering Monotheistic Metaphysics: The Exegetical Reflections of James Legge (18151897) and Lo Chung-fan (d. circa 1850)
Lauren Pfister
Contributors
Index