Introduction Chenyang Li and Franklin Perkins; 1. Yinyang narrative of reality: Chinese metaphysical thinking Robin R. Wang; 2. In defense of Chinese qi-naturalism JeeLoo Liu; 3. What is a thing (wu 物)? The problem of individuation in early Chinese metaphysics Franklin Perkins; 4. The Mohist conception of reality Chris Fraser; 5. Reading the Zhongyong 'metaphysically' Roger T. Ames; 6. Logos and Dao: conceptions of reality in Heraclitus and Laozi Jiyuan Yu; 7. Constructions of reality: metaphysics in the ritual traditions of classical China Michael Puett; 8. Concepts of reality in Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism Hans-Rudolf Kantor; 9. Being and events: Huayan Buddhism's concept of event and Whitehead's ontological principle Vincent Shen; 10. Harmony as substance: Zhang Zai's metaphysics of polar relations Brook Ziporyn; 11. A lexicography of Zhu Xi's metaphysics John Berthrong; 12. Xiong Shili's understanding of the relationship between the ontological and the phenomenal John Makeham; Works cited; Index.

'As the publisher's blurb states, this is 'the first English-language anthology devoted to Chinese metaphysics'. With its twelve meaty chapters and a helpful introduction it is an extremely solid and welcome addition to the rapidly growing body of literature on comparative philosophy … Anyone with an interest in Chinese or comparative philosophy, with or without prior exposure to the Chinese side, will learn much from it.' Joseph A. Adler, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews