Toward a third epoch of Confucian humanism / Tu Wei-ming -- The unfolding of early Confucianism / Cho-yun Hsü -- The Kʻung family master's anthology and third-century Confucianism / Yoàv Ariel -- What is Confucian spirituality? / Julia Ching -- On Confucian, European, and universal aesthetics / Ben-Ami Scharfstein -- Human rites / Wm. Theodore de Bary -- Scholarship and autobiography / Irene Eber -- A Chinese Don Quixote / Vitaly Rubin.
Seven of the papers presented at the Vitaly Rubin Memorial Colloquium on "Confucianism, the Dynamics of Tradition," convened under the auspices of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1983. Includes index.