Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Philosophical Dimension of the Ming-Qing Intellectual Transition: Conceptions of Human Nature (Xing)
2. The Life of a Scholar-Official
3. General Theory: Metaphysics and Metapraxis
4. The Ontology of Xing (Nature) and Its Meta-practical Import
5. Reading the Classics: Hermeneutics and Philosophy
6. Vita Activa: Action in the Political and Social Realms
Concluding Reflections
Notes
Glossary of Transliterations
Selected Bibliography of Works Cited
Index