Joanne D. Birdwhistell is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Asian Civilization at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She is the author of Li Yong (1627-1705) and Epistemological Dimensions of Confucian Philosophy and Transition to Neo-Confucianism: Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Hidden in Plain View: Questions, Issues, and Perspectives

2. Text as Cultural Landscape

3. Against Shen Nong's Agrarian Masculinity

4. Against King Hui's Self-centered Masculinity

5. Compassionate Governing: Dynamics, References, and Practices

6. Ruling as Son and Younger Brother

7. Ruling as Father and Mother of the People

8. Mothers, Feelings, and Masculinity

9. Gender, A Continuing Issue

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