Transformation of Ethical Ideas in Contemporary China

Yao Xinzhong, distinguished professor and outstanding scholar of Renmin University of China, at the Ethics and Moral Construction Research Center of Renmin University of China, a key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, has won the title of Beijing Outstanding Worker in Colleges and Universities (1988), the first prize of Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award (2017), the second prize of China National Teaching Achievement Award (2018), and has authored or edited more than 20 academic works in Chinese and English.Wang Shuihuan, lecturer at the School of Marxism, North China University of Technology, mainly focuses on political philosophy, ethics, and localization of Marxism in China. He was a lecturer and postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, and published several academic articles in such journals as Dushu, Academics, Zhejiang Social Sciences, and Research on the History of Publishing in China, etc.

• Chapter 1: Self-cultivation as the Basis ─ Self-cultivation of the Chinese.- Chapter 2: The State Has its Basis in the Family ─ The Chinese Family Ethics.- Chapter 3: Life Can’t be Without Community ─ the Social Ethics of the Chinese.- Chapter 4: Benevolence, Righteousness, Loyalty, and Integrity: Political Ethics in Ancient China.- Chapter 5: The Great Virtue of Heaven and Earth is Nurturing life ─ Environmental Ethics of the Chinese.- Chapter 6: World-Oriented Chinese Ethical Wisdom.