Wm. Theodore de Bary (1919–2017) was John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and provost emeritus of Columbia University. His many books include Waiting for the Dawn, Message of the Mind, and Learning for One’s Self, as well as Sources of Japanese Tradition and Sources of Korean Tradition, all published by Columbia University Press.

Tu Weiming is the editor of China in Transformation and author of Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today, and Way, Meaning and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual.

1. The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity
1. The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang DynastyDavid N. Keightley
2. Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition Burton Watson, by David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom
3. Confucius and the AnalectsIrene Bloom
4. Mozi: Utilitarianism, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson
5. The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi
6. The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity
7. Legalists and Militarists
8. The Han Reaction to Qin Despotism
9. Daoist Syncretisms of the Late Zhou, by Qin, and Early Han
10. The Imperial Order and Han Syntheses
11. The Economic Order Burton Watson, by Wm. Theodore deBary
12. The Great Han Historians Burton Watson
3. Later Taoism and Mah‰y‰na Buddhism in China
13. Learning of the MysteriousRichard John Lynn, by Wing-tsit Chan, Irene Bloom
14. Daoist ReligionFranciscus Verellen, by Nathan Sivin, et al.
15. The Introduction of Buddhism
16. Schools of Buddhism
17. Schools of Buddhism
4. The Confucian Revival and Neo-Confucianism
18. Social Life and Political Culture in the Tang
19. The Confucian Revival in the Song
20. Neo-Confucianism: The Philosophy of Human Nature and the Way of the Sage
21. Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Program Wm. Theodore deBary
22. Ideological Foundations of Late Imperial China
23. Neo-Confucian Education
24. Continuity and Crisis in the Ming