Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Preface Abbreviations A Note on Romanization and Chinese Characters Part I Meeting Confucius 1 1. Pound and Confucius: A Historical Confrontation 3 1.1 The Perplexing Ideological Environment 4 1.2 The Unfavorable Intellectual Environment 8 2. Pound’s Conversion to Confucianism 10 2.1 Pound’s Denunciation of Christianity 11 2.2 Becoming a Confucian Poet 17 Part II Pound’s Confucianism 23 3. Pound’s Ideas on Man and Self 25 3.1 Pound’s Zhi Ren 知人 25 3.2 Pound’s Self-cultivation 36 3.3 Becoming a Man with Ren 仁 44 4. Pound’s Ethics on Man and Society 52 4.1 Establishing the Order in the Family — Xiao Ti 孝悌 53 4.2 Establishing Social Orders — Li, Yi 禮, 義 61 4.3 The Root: Ben 本 73 5. Pound’s Ethics on Man and Nature 77 5.1 Pound’s Tao 道 and Nature 77 5.2 The Union with Nature 84 5.3 The Transcendental Power: “Their Sealed Order” 92 5.4 Man in Nature: Jing, Cheng 敬, 誠 95 Part III Pound’s Confucianism and the Modern World 101 6. Pound’s Confucianism as a Remedy for Western Disease 103 7. The Legacy of Pound’s Confucianism 106 7.1 Poundian Scholarship 106 7.2 Confucian Scholarship 111 7.3 Amateur Readers 113 Conclusions — Reconsidering Pound’s Confucianism in the 21st Century 118 Glossary 124 References 126