Tao Jiang teaches at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. His research interests include pre-Qin classical Chinese philosophy, Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is the author of Contexts and Dialogue: Yogacara Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (University of Hawai'i Press, 2006) and the co-editor of The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China (Routledge, 2013). He is chair of Religion Department and director of Center for Chinese Studies at Rutgers. Jiang co-chairs the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar at Columbia University as well as the Buddhist Philosophy Unit at the American Academy of Religion. He serves on the editorial boards of several leading Asian and comparative philosophy journals.

Jiang always succeeds in providing interesting examples to make his point. It will attract nonacademic but well-informed readers as well as intelligent undergraduates who love Chinese history. It should be read by graduate students who intend to become specialists in Chinese philosophy and pre-imperial China. More important, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China promises to be a valuable resource for those teaching courses that cover to various degrees pre-imperial Chinese thought, politics, and culture at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Instructors teaching survey courses on China or East Asia can refer to the basic information and interesting anecdotes contained in the book to introduce essential ancient Chinese texts and their main ideas.

• IntroductionPart I: Humaneness-cum-Justice: Negotiating Humans' Relationship with HeavenChapter 1: Ritual and Ren in Confucius' World: Humaneness-cum-Justice at the Incipience of Chinese Moral-Political Philosophy Part II: Humaneness versus Justice: Grappling with the Familial-Political Relationship Under a Naturalizing HeavenChapter 2: The Great Divergence: Mozi and Mencius on Justice and HumanenessChapter 3: Justice and Humaneness in a Naturalist Cosmos: Laozi's Dao and the Realignment of ValuesChapter 4: Modeling the State after Heaven: Impartiality in Early Fajia Political Philosophy Part III: Personal Freedom, Humaneness, and Justice: Coming to Terms with the State Under a Naturalized Heaven Chapter 5: Zhuangzi's Lone Project of Personal FreedomChapter 6: Xunzi's Synthesis of Humaneness and Justice: Ritual as the Sages' Partnership with Heaven and EarthChapter 7: Universal Bureaucratic State as the Sole Agent for Justice in Han Feizi's ThoughtConclusion: Regime of Self-Cultivation and Tragedy of Personal Freedom

Tao Jiang teaches at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. His research interests include pre-Qin classical Chinese philosophy, Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is the author of Contexts and Dialogue: Yogacara Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (University of Hawai'i Press, 2006) and the co-editor of The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China (Routledge, 2013). He is chair of Religion Department and director of Center for Chinese Studies at Rutgers. Jiang co-chairs the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar at Columbia University as well as the Buddhist Philosophy Unit at the American Academy of Religion. He serves on the editorial boards of several leading Asian and comparative philosophy journals.

Jiang always succeeds in providing interesting examples to make his point. It will attract nonacademic but well-informed readers as well as intelligent undergraduates who love Chinese history. It should be read by graduate students who intend to become specialists in Chinese philosophy and pre-imperial China. More important, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China promises to be a valuable resource for those teaching courses that cover to various degrees pre-imperial Chinese thought, politics, and culture at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Instructors teaching survey courses on China or East Asia can refer to the basic information and interesting anecdotes contained in the book to introduce essential ancient Chinese texts and their main ideas.

• IntroductionPart I: Humaneness-cum-Justice: Negotiating Humans' Relationship with HeavenChapter 1: Ritual and Ren in Confucius' World: Humaneness-cum-Justice at the Incipience of Chinese Moral-Political Philosophy Part II: Humaneness versus Justice: Grappling with the Familial-Political Relationship Under a Naturalizing HeavenChapter 2: The Great Divergence: Mozi and Mencius on Justice and HumanenessChapter 3: Justice and Humaneness in a Naturalist Cosmos: Laozi's Dao and the Realignment of ValuesChapter 4: Modeling the State after Heaven: Impartiality in Early Fajia Political Philosophy Part III: Personal Freedom, Humaneness, and Justice: Coming to Terms with the State Under a Naturalized Heaven Chapter 5: Zhuangzi's Lone Project of Personal FreedomChapter 6: Xunzi's Synthesis of Humaneness and Justice: Ritual as the Sages' Partnership with Heaven and EarthChapter 7: Universal Bureaucratic State as the Sole Agent for Justice in Han Feizi's ThoughtConclusion: Regime of Self-Cultivation and Tragedy of Personal Freedom

Tao Jiang teaches at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. His research interests include pre-Qin classical Chinese philosophy, Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is the author of Contexts and Dialogue: Yogacara Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (University of Hawai'i Press, 2006) and the co-editor of The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China (Routledge, 2013). He is chair of Religion Department and director of Center for Chinese Studies at Rutgers. Jiang co-chairs the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar at Columbia University as well as the Buddhist Philosophy Unit at the American Academy of Religion. He serves on the editorial boards of several leading Asian and comparative philosophy journals.

Jiang always succeeds in providing interesting examples to make his point. It will attract nonacademic but well-informed readers as well as intelligent undergraduates who love Chinese history. It should be read by graduate students who intend to become specialists in Chinese philosophy and pre-imperial China. More important, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China promises to be a valuable resource for those teaching courses that cover to various degrees pre-imperial Chinese thought, politics, and culture at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Instructors teaching survey courses on China or East Asia can refer to the basic information and interesting anecdotes contained in the book to introduce essential ancient Chinese texts and their main ideas.

• IntroductionPart I: Humaneness-cum-Justice: Negotiating Humans' Relationship with HeavenChapter 1: Ritual and Ren in Confucius' World: Humaneness-cum-Justice at the Incipience of Chinese Moral-Political Philosophy Part II: Humaneness versus Justice: Grappling with the Familial-Political Relationship Under a Naturalizing HeavenChapter 2: The Great Divergence: Mozi and Mencius on Justice and HumanenessChapter 3: Justice and Humaneness in a Naturalist Cosmos: Laozi's Dao and the Realignment of ValuesChapter 4: Modeling the State after Heaven: Impartiality in Early Fajia Political Philosophy Part III: Personal Freedom, Humaneness, and Justice: Coming to Terms with the State Under a Naturalized Heaven Chapter 5: Zhuangzi's Lone Project of Personal FreedomChapter 6: Xunzi's Synthesis of Humaneness and Justice: Ritual as the Sages' Partnership with Heaven and EarthChapter 7: Universal Bureaucratic State as the Sole Agent for Justice in Han Feizi's ThoughtConclusion: Regime of Self-Cultivation and Tragedy of Personal Freedom