A new generation of Confucian scholars is coming of age. China is reawakening to the power and importance of its own culture. This volume provides a unique view of the emerging Confucian vision for China and the world in the 21^st century. Unlike the Neo-Confucians sojourning in North America who recast Confucianism in terms of modern Western values, this new generation of Chinese scholars takes the authentic roots of Confucian thought seriously. This collection of essays offers the first critical exploration in English of the emerging Confucian, non-liberal, non-social-democratic, moral and political vision for Chinäs future. Inspired by the life and scholarship of Jiang Qing who has emerged as China's exemplar contemporary Confucian, this volume allows the English reader access to a moral and cultural vision that seeks to direct Chinäs political power, social governance, and moral life. For those working in Chinese studies, this collection provides the first access in English to major debates in China concerning a Confucian reconceptualization of governance, a critical Confucian assessment of feminism, Confucianism functioning again as a religion, and the possibility of a moral vision that can fill the cultural vacuum created by the collapse of Marxism.

Introduction. The Rise of Authentic Confucianism    Ruiping Fan Part I. The Renaissance of Confucianism1. From Mind Confucianism to Political Confucianism          Jiang Qing           2. The Rise of Political Confucianism in Contemporary China       Ruichang Wang3. On ¿One-Continuity¿ in Jiang Qing¿s Confucian Thought       Dan Lin4. Jiang Qing on Equality            Ruiping Fan5. The Confucian Conception of Transcendence and Filial Piety      Qingxin K. Wang6. Toward a Proper Relation between Men and Women: Beyond Masculinism and   Feminism              Tangjia Wang     7. The Soft Power in the Confucian ¿Kingly Way¿       Anthony YeungPart II. Critiques and Responses8. Jiang Qing¿s ¿Political Confucianism¿     Daniel Bell  9. Declaration towards a Global Ethic? Jiang Qing¿s Response      Jonathan Chan10. Jiang Qing on the Inevitable and Permanent Conflict between the Christian Faith and       Confucian Culture            Ping-cheung Lo11. The Characteristics and Prospect of Confucian Academies: A Commentary on Jiang Qing's Ideas on Confucian Academies      Xiuping Hong12. Three Political Confucianisms and Half a Century          Albert H.Y. Chen 13. Is Political Confucianism a Universalism? An Analysis of Jiang Qing¿s Philosophical Tendency  Xianglong Zhang Part III. A Note on Jiang Qing14. A Confucian Coming of Age             Erika Yu and Meng Fan