Part I. Introduction. - 1. Forward. - 2. Yao Yang: Public Intellectual, Liberal Economist, Confucian Pragmatist. - 3. Is a New Cold War Coming? - Part II.

My family, my village and China's modernization. - 4. The vanishing town. - 5. Three days back in the village. - 6. Before my grandfather's portrait. - 7.

My view of revolutionary history. - 8. China's path of modernization and its implications for the rest of the world. - Part III. New wine in an old bottle: a new interpretation of Confucianism. - 9. The Confucian state: An ideal type of governance for China? - 10. Go beyond liberal democracy: insights from Confucianism.

- 11. Confucianism and liberalism: An ideal type of governance for China? - 12. Confucianism and common prosperity. - 13. Restoring the true face of politics in Chinese history: Qian Mu and his book Successes and Failures of Chinese Politics Throughout the Ages. - Part IV. Turning back to China: Understanding the CCP. - 14.

The End of Ideology? - 15. The Dilemma of China's democratization. - 16. Understanding the Chinese Communist Party System. - 17. Sinification of Marxism: The CCP's most urgent ideological challenge.