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Cover -- Origins Of Moral-political Philosophy In Early China -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Chinese Philosophy In The Western Academy: Between Sinology And Philosophy -- 2. Sinological Challenge Concerning Classical Chinese Philosophy -- 2.1. The Problem Of Authorship In Philosophical Interpretations -- 2.2. A Case Study Of Authorship: Contemporary Debate On The Zhuangzi -- 2.3. Multiple Roles Of Authorship -- 2.4. Sinology And Philosophy On Authorship And Textual Coherence 2.5. Two Sets Of Scholarly Objects: Sinological Versus Philosophical -- 2.6. Three Roles Of Sinology In Chinese Philosophy: Preparer, Challenger, And Jailbreaker -- 3. The Politics Of Chinese Philosophy In The West: Some Recent Developments -- 3.1. An Uproar In America -- 3.2. A Controversy In Europe -- 4. Origins Of Moral-political Philosophy In Early China -- 4.1 Contestation Of Humaneness, Justice, And Personal Freedom -- 4.2. Summary Of Chapters -- Part 1 -- 1. Ritual And Ren In Confucius's World: Humaneness-cum-justice At The Incipience Of Chinese Moral-political Philosophy 1. Situating Confucius And The Analects -- 2. Confucius And The Mandate Of Heaven -- 2.1. The Mandate Of Heaven And The Justice Turn In Chinese History -- 2.2. Confucius's Subversive Claim Concerning The Heavenly Mandate -- 3. Ritualizing The World -- 3.1. Vicissitudes Of Ritual In Early Zhou -- 3.2. Emergence Of Ritual As A Distinct Conceptual Category -- 4. Confucius's Ethicization Of Ritual: Shifting The Ground Of Ritual From Heaven To Ren -- 4.1. Ren: A New And Contested Ground Of Ritual -- 4.2. Ren As Humaneness: Ideal Person, Family, And Polity -- 4.3. Ren As Justice A. Semantic Argument -- B. Philosophical Argument: Ren And The Golden Rule In The Analects -- 4.4. Continuum Between Humaneness And Justice In Confucius's Ren -- 5. After Confucius: Early Confucianism In The Excavated Bamboo-slip Manuscripts -- 5.1. Scholarly Disputations About The Excavated Texts -- 5.2