"This is an astonishing, and timely book...it works at a level of ambition and capacity that is breathtaking." - Peter Beilharz, Journal of Sociology, 2016, Vol. 52 (1) 134–135."Xiaoying Qi provides us with an exemplary study of the way the wealth of Chinese intellectual traditions can be brought into critical engagement with Western paradigms to develop common conceptual resources … In a short review one can only begin to suggest the depth of scholarship and richness of argument and insight that this book contains … There is more than ample proof here that the author will be in the forefront of those who take this programme forward". Professor Martin Albrow [2015] Journal of China in Comparative Perspective, 1(1): 146-149).