A joint work by twelve contributors, examines from different aspects and different periods, the way in which Confucianism guided the thought and action of the Chinese educated class.

Introduction / David S. Nivison

Some common tendencies in neo-confucianism / Wm. Theodore De Bary

Some polarities in confucian thought / Benjamin Schwartz

An analysis of Chinese clan rules: confucian theories in action / Huizhen Wang Liu

The Fan clan's charitable estate, 1050-1760 / Denis Twitchett

Some characteristics of Chinese bureaucratic behavior / C.K. Yang

Some classifications of bureaucrats in Chinese historiography / James T.C. Liu

Confucianism and the Chinese censorial system / Charles O. Hucker

Ho-shen and his accusers: ideology and political behavior in the eighteenth century / David S. Nivison

The suggestiveness of vestiges: confucianism and monarchy at the last / Joseph R. Levenson

The confucian teacher in Tokugawa Japan / John Whitney Hall

Motoda Eifu: confucian lecturer to the Meiji emperor / Donald H. Shively.