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(chéng) 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