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First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 364; fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. "This book is designed as a contribution to Western understanding of one of the world's great moral systems. Confucianism was rejected by most Chinese intellectuals during the first half of this century, as if this vast and sophisticated system of thought, more than half-way through its third millennium of dialogue and development, were in some way responsible for the political, social, and economic problems confronting China. It has fallen to the lot of the next generation of thinkers, of which Professor Tu is a recognized scholar, to reassess Confucianism as a tradition of spiritual development and moral growth with profound meaning for modern man" (jacket blurb).…