Chenyang Li is professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Sai Hang Kwok is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Macau. Dascha Düring is a postdoctoral fellow of the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

It should go without saying that “harmony” is a central concept in Chinese thought, but what is less understood is the range of views and contestation around “harmony.” By including leading scholars' views of the many faces of harmony, and especially by tracking the concept through time — down to the present day — this volume offers a comprehensive, detailed examination of this most important idea. The result is a volume that is unusually well integrated and stands as an authoritative work on the subject of harmony.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: In Search of HarmonySection I: Historical and Conceptual FrameworksChapter 1: “He (?)”, Concept Cluster of Harmony in Early ChinaChapter 2: Music and the Concept of Harmony as Seen in Unearthed ManuscriptsChapter 3: Active Harmony, Passive Harmony, Freedom, and DominationSection II: Daoism4. Divergent Models of Harmony From the ZhuangziChapter 5: “Being Cool with Something (he zhi??):” Conflict Resolution in the ZhuangziChapter 6: Emptying the Body: The Space of Harmonization in Han DaoismSection III: ConfucianismChapter 7: Confucian Harmony as Ritual SynchronicityChapter 8: Harmony as Hermeneutic Openness: Aesthetic Perspectives on Confucian HarmonySection IV: Contending Voices of Mohism, Legalism, and BuddhismChapter 9: Tong: A Mohist Response to the Confucian HarmonyChapter 10: The Divergence between the Confucian and Legalist Quest for HarmonyChapter 11: Harmony and Nature: Thoughts from Laozi and Shen DaoChapter 12. Harmony and Paradox: The Tiantai Buddhist View of the “Round/Perfect” (yuan?)Section V: Contemporary DiscussionsChapter 13: Reflections on Three Challenges to a Discussion of HarmonyChapter 14: Meritocracy, Democracy, and Deep Harmony: Toward Democratic RelationalityList of Contributors

Chenyang Li is professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Sai Hang Kwok is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Macau. Dascha Düring is a postdoctoral fellow of the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

It should go without saying that “harmony” is a central concept in Chinese thought, but what is less understood is the range of views and contestation around “harmony.” By including leading scholars' views of the many faces of harmony, and especially by tracking the concept through time — down to the present day — this volume offers a comprehensive, detailed examination of this most important idea. The result is a volume that is unusually well integrated and stands as an authoritative work on the subject of harmony.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: In Search of HarmonySection I: Historical and Conceptual FrameworksChapter 1: “He (?)”, Concept Cluster of Harmony in Early ChinaChapter 2: Music and the Concept of Harmony as Seen in Unearthed ManuscriptsChapter 3: Active Harmony, Passive Harmony, Freedom, and DominationSection II: Daoism4. Divergent Models of Harmony From the ZhuangziChapter 5: “Being Cool with Something (he zhi??):” Conflict Resolution in the ZhuangziChapter 6: Emptying the Body: The Space of Harmonization in Han DaoismSection III: ConfucianismChapter 7: Confucian Harmony as Ritual SynchronicityChapter 8: Harmony as Hermeneutic Openness: Aesthetic Perspectives on Confucian HarmonySection IV: Contending Voices of Mohism, Legalism, and BuddhismChapter 9: Tong: A Mohist Response to the Confucian HarmonyChapter 10: The Divergence between the Confucian and Legalist Quest for HarmonyChapter 11: Harmony and Nature: Thoughts from Laozi and Shen DaoChapter 12. Harmony and Paradox: The Tiantai Buddhist View of the “Round/Perfect” (yuan?)Section V: Contemporary DiscussionsChapter 13: Reflections on Three Challenges to a Discussion of HarmonyChapter 14: Meritocracy, Democracy, and Deep Harmony: Toward Democratic RelationalityList of Contributors