Introduction: The politics of affective relations in East Asia / Daniel A. Bell and Hahm Chaihark -- Confucian perspectives on pluralism, gender equality, and the family / David B. Wong -- Confucianism and the public sphere : five relationships plus one? / Fred R. Dallmayr -- Exploring the nonfamilial in Confucian political philosophy / Joseph Chan -- Is a Confucian family-oriented civil society possible? / Ruiping Fan -- The personal is political : Confucianism and liberal feminism / Sin Yee Chan -- Selected Confucian networks and values in society and the economy / Hoyt Cleveland Tillman -- The political ambiguity of voluntary associations : Chinese forms of civic possibility, past, and present / R. Bin Wong -- Rethinking civil society in China : an interpretative approach / Liang Zhiping -- Democracy in Korea and the myth of civil society / Sung Ho Kim -- From relations to rules : a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence / Shaomin Li -- Social networks, electronic commerce, and economic liberalization in China / Jane K. Winn -- Social networks, civil society, democracy, and rule of law : a new conceptual framework / Randall Peerenboom -- Negotiating Confucian civility through constitutional discourse / Hahm Chaihark.