Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
A Note on Romanization and Chinese Characters
Introduction
Part I Meeting Confucius
1. Pound and Confucius: A Historical Confrontation
1.1 The Perplexing Ideological Environment
1.2 The Unfavorable Intellectual Environment
2. Pound’s Conversion to Confucianism
2.1 Pound’s Denunciation of Christianity
2.2 Becoming a Confucian Poet
Part II Pound’s Confucianism
3. Pound’s Ideas on Man and Self
3.1 Pound’s Zhi Ren 知人
3.2 Pound’s Self-cultivation
3.3 Becoming a Man with Ren 仁
4. Pound’s Ethics on Man and Society
4.1 Establishing the Order in the Family — Xiao Ti 孝悌
4.2 Establishing Social Orders — Li, Yi 礼, 义
4.3 The Root: Ben 本
5. Pound’s Ethics on Man and Nature
5.1 Pound’s Tao 道 and Nature
5.2 The Union with Nature
5.3 The Transcendental Power: “Their Sealed Order”
5.4 Man in Nature: Jing, Cheng 敬, 诚
Part III Pound’s Confucianism and the Modern World
6. Pound’s Confucianism as a Remedy for Western Disease
7. The Legacy of Pound’s Confucianism
7.1 Poundian Scholarship
7.2 Confucian Scholarship
7.3 Amateur Readers
Conclusions — Reconsidering Pound’s Confucianism in the 21st Century
Glossary
References