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This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections - addressing the "theory" and "practice" of contemporary Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each other - to provide readers a more meaningful understanding of contemporary Confucianism and Chinese culture. In 1921, at the height of the New Culture Movement´s iconoclastic attack on Confucius, Liang Shuming ( ) fatefully predicted that in fact the future world culture would be Confucian. Over the nine decades that followed, Liang´s reputation and the fortunes of Confucianism in China rose and fell together. So, readers may be interested in the question whether it is possible that a reconstituted "Confucianism" might yet become China´s spiritual mainstream and a major constituent of world culture.

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Introduction: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Confucianism.- Some Historical and Methodological Reflections on Ruxue in Contemporary China.- From Culture to Cultural Nationalism: A Study of New Confucianism of the 1980s and 1990s.- A Study on Pre-Qin Confucian Scholars´ Environmental Ethics.- On Confucian Constitutionalism.- Building a Loho Homeland with Traditional Wisdom.- Modernizing Tradition or Restoring Antiquity as Confucian Alternatives: A View from Reading Wedding Rituals in Contemporary China.- Liang Shuming: a Lifelong Activist.- Confucianism as the religion for our present time .- Liang Shuming´s Conception of Democracy .- Humankind Must Know Itself.

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