Signposts of Self-Realization

Xinmin Liu, Ph. D. (1997) Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the Washington State University. Author of many published book chapters and journal articles, he has lately undertaken intense study of humanist ecology in the global context.

• AcknowledgmentsPart One An Introduction to Self-Realization in Modern China 1. Sociality in Early Modern China: An Ontological Appraisal2. Historicizing Social Development and Self-RealizationPart Two Ethical Imperative and Social Progress 3. Fountainheads of Change: Yan Fu’s Tussle with Evolution4. Empathetic Vision in Yu Dafu’s Fiction5. A Exile of Self-Disinheritance: Revisiting Qu Qiubai6. Non-Epiphany in Ye Shaojun’s Lyrical VisionPart Three Post-Revolutionary Self-Remaking and Global Development7. How Steel Is Tempered: The Making of a Revolutionary Hero8. Retributive Memories: Self-Realization in the Post-Mao Era9. Zhang Chengzhi’s Reinvention of Ethnic IdentityGlossaryWorks CitedIndex