A Note on Romanization and Chinese Characters Introduction 1
Part Ⅰ Meeting Confucius 17
1.Pound and Confucius: A Historical Confrontation 19
1.1 The Perplexing Ideological Environment 20
1.2 The Unfavorable Intellectual Environment 24
2.Pound’s Conversion to Confucianism 26
2.1 Pound’s Denunciation of Christianity 27
2.2 Becoming a Confucian Poet 33
Part Ⅱ Pound’s Confucianism 39
3.Pound’s Ideas on Man and Self 41
3.1 Pound’s Zhi Ren 知人 41
3.2 Pound’s Self-cultivation 52
3.3 Becoming a Man with Ren 仁 60
4.Pound’s Ethics on Man and Society 68
4.1 Establishing the Order in the Family—Xiao Ti孝悌 69
4.2 Establishing Social Orders — Li,Yi 礼,义 77
4.3 The Root: Ben 本 89
5.Pound’s Ethics on Man and Nature 93
5.1 Pound’s Tao 道 and Nature 93
5.2 The Union with Nature 100
5.3 The Transcendental Power: “Their Sealed Order” 108
5.4 Man in Nature: Jing, Cheng 敬, 诚 111
Part Ⅲ Pound’s Confucianism and the Modern World 117
6.Pound’s Confucianism as a Remedy for Western Disease 119
7.The Legacy of Pound’s Confucianism 122
7.1 Poundian Scholarship 122
7.2 Confucian Scholarship 127
7.3 Amateur Readers 129
Conclusions—Reconsidering Pound’s Confucianism in the 21st Century 134
Glossary 140
References 142