Introduction: Thinking China in the Age of Xi Jinping
Part I: The Challenge
1. "Unifying the Three Traditions" in the New Era (selection) (2005), by Gan Yang
Part II: Liberal Voices
2. Liberalism in the Chinese Context (2004), by Liu Qing
3. A China Bereft of Thought (2013), by Rong Jian
4. Original Intentions Start with the People (2017), by Guo Yuhua
5. "The Shadow of Communist Civilization": A Gongshi Wang (Consensus Net) Interview (2013), by Guo Yuhua
6. Advancing Constitutional Democracy Should Be the Mission of the Chinese Communist Party (2013), by Cai Xia
7. "I Am a Child of the Nineteenth Century": The Last Twenty Years of Wang Yuanhua's Life (2008), by Xu Jilin
Part III: Left Voices
8. Mao Zedong and His Era (2012), by Qian Liqun
9. From Authoritarian Government to Constitutional Democracy (2012), by Xiao Gongqin
10. Liberalism: For the Aristocrats or for the People? (1999), by Gan Yang
11. Representative Democracy and Representational Democracy (2014), by Wang Shaoguang
12. The Significance of Borders (2017), by Sun Ge
Part IV: New Confucian Voices
13. Kang Youwei and Institutional Confucianism (2014), by Chen Ming, Gan Yang, Tang Wenming, Yao Zhongqiu, and Zhang Xiang
14. A Century of Confucianism (2014), by Chen Lai
15. Only Confucians Can Make a Place for Modern Women (2015), by Jiang Qing
Glossary of Names and Terms
List of Essays Translated in This Volume, with Original Titles
Contributors
Index

Timothy Cheek is Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. His most recent book is The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History (2015).
David Ownby is professor of Chinese history at the University of Montréal. He is the editor and translator of Xu Jilin's Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique (2018), among other works.
Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair in Modern Chinese Studies at York University. His many books include Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations (2014).