First published in 1958 These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume One includes: * The critique of Idealism * Science and Ch'ing empiricism * The Ming style, in society and art * Confucianism and the end of the Taoist connection * Eclecticism in the area of native Chinese choices * T'i and Yung * The Chin-Wen School and the classical sanction * The modern Ku-Wen opposition to Chin-Wen reformism * The role of nationalism * Communism * Western powers and Chinese revolutions * Language change and the problem of continuity

First published in 1965. These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Three includes: * Liao P'ing and the Confucian Departure from History * The place of Confucius in Communist China * Historical, moral and intellectual significance

First published in 1964 These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes: * The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven * Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation * The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality * The limits of despotic control * Monarch and people * The Taiping Relation to Confucianism * The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques

First published in 1958 These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume One includes: * The critique of Idealism * Science and Ch'ing empiricism * The Ming style, in society and art * Confucianism and the end of the Taoist connection * Eclecticism in the area of native Chinese choices * T'i and Yung * The Chin-Wen School and the classical sanction * The modern Ku-Wen opposition to Chin-Wen reformism * The role of nationalism * Communism * Western powers and Chinese revolutions * Language change and the problem of continuity

First published in 1964 These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes: * The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven * Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation * The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality * The limits of despotic control * Monarch and people * The Taiping Relation to Confucianism * The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques

First published in 1965. These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Three includes: * Liao P'ing and the Confucian Departure from History * The place of Confucius in Communist China * Historical, moral and intellectual significance