The Confucian Misgivings--Liang Shu-ming's Narrative About Law
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Why Liang Shu-ming? -- What Is the New-Confucianism ? -- An Accumulated Wisdom -- Aims, Presumptions and Methods -- Part I Legitimacy of Law -- 1 What Is Law on Earth -- Systemisation of Order -- Public Will -- A Reflection of the Way of Life -- Reason Is an Internal Logic of Human Norms -- A Part of Culture -- 2 Social Structure: Lisu, Qingyi and Law -- Ethical-Oriented and Occupation-Differentiated -- Lisu (礼俗): Great Tradition and Little Tradition -- Qingyi: An Obscurity Between Subjectivity and Objectivity -- Two Law/Laws -- 3 Volksgeist: Human Reason and Law -- From Philosophy of Life to Spirit of the People -- Custom and Philosophy of Life -- Human Reason: A Presumption on and Expectation of Humanity -- Liang Shu-ming and Savigny -- 4 The Transcendence: Secular vis-à-vis Spiritual -- Two Camps -- The Source of Law -- Transcendental Way: Heaven Principle and Human Feeling -- 5 The Source and Crisis of Meaning in the Realm of Law in China -- Students Incident -- A "Legalist" Attitude -- Crisis of Meaning -- Part I Conclusion -- Part II Constitutional Government: China'sPredicament and Extrication -- 6 The Constitutionalism: shi (势) and li (理) -- Two as One -- True Nature -- Techniques of "yaoyue" ( 约) -- The Western Conceptual Sources -- 7 China Has Not Yet Reached the Stage Where It Can Have a Successful Constitution -- Social-Historical Conditions -- Practical Difficulties and Lengthiness -- Cultural Predigestion and Blending -- 8 The Road to Constitutional Government in China -- The Holistic Resolution in Form of the Pieces in the Chain -- Rural Reconstruction: A Fact for a Norm -- KMT and the Communists: A Chance to Form Shi (势) and Li (理) -- Later Years Since 1976 -- 9 The Reaction to and Reconsideration of Liang Shu-Ming -- Zhang Fu-Quan (张佛泉) and Hu Shi ( )