Confucian Cultures of Authority -- Contents -- Introduction:Confucian Cultures of Authority -- Two Loci of Authority:Autonomous Individuals and Related Persons1 -- Intimate Authority: The Rule of Ritualin Classical Confucian Political Discourse -- The Wei (Positioning)-Ming(Naming)-Lianmian (Face)-Guanxi(Relationship)-Renqing(Humanized Feelings) Complex in Contemporary Chinese Culture -- Creeping Absolutism: Parental Authority as Seen in Early MedievalTales of Filial Offspring -- Virtue (de), Talent (cai),and Beauty (se): Authoring a Full-fledged Womanhood in Lienüzhuan (Biographies of Women) -- Aspects of Authority in Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West -- Establishing Authority through Scholarship: Ruan Yuan and the Xuehaitang Academy -- Intellectual and Political Controversiesover Authority in China: 1898-1922 -- Ought We Throw the Confucian Baby Out with the Authoritarian Bathwater?: A Critical Inquiry into Lu Xun'sAnti-Confucian Identity -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.