IntroductionRoger T. Ames Part One: A Basis for Engagement Introduction to Part OneRoger T. Ames 1. Recapturing Personal IdentityRobert C. Solomon 2. The Coordination of the Self and the PassionsAmélie Oksenberg Rorty 3. Rousseau, Hakuseki, and Hakuin: Paradigms of Self in Three AutobiographersJohn C. Maraldo Part Two: Person in Japanese Theory and Practice Introduction to Part TwoThomas P. Kasulis 4. Researching the Strata of the Japanese SelfThomas P. Kasulis 5. Migawari: The Cultural Idiom of Self-Other Exchange in JapanTakie Sugiyama Lebra 6. Spiritual Quests of Twentieth-Century Women: A Theory of Self-Discovery and a Japanese Case StudyDiane B. Obenchain Part Three: Person in Chinese Theory and Practice Introduction to Part ThreeRoger T. Ames 7. Embodying the Universe: A Note on Confucian Self-RealizationTu Wei-ming 8. The Focus-Field Self in Classical ConfucianismRoger T. Ames 9. To Be or Not to Be: The Postmodern Self and the Wu-Forms of TaoismDavid L. Hall 10. Self and Collectivity: Socialization in Chinese PreschoolsDavid Y. H. Wu 11. Beyond the Patrilineal Self: Constructing Gender in ChinaMargery Wolf Part Four: Person in Indian Theory and Practice Introduction to Part FourWimal Dissanayake 12. The Perception of Self in Indian TraditionBimal Krishna Matilal 13. Emotion Profiles: The Self and the Emotion of PridePadmasiri de Silva 14. Conceptualizing the Person: Hierarchical Society and Individual Autonomy in IndiaMattison Mines 15 Self, Identity, and Creativity: Women Writers in IndiaYamuna Kachru 16. Selves in Motion: An Indian-Japanese ComparisonAlan Roland Contributors Index

Roger T. Ames is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. He edits the journal, Philosophy East and West. He is also the editor of Thinking Through Confucius; Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (with J. Baird Callicott); and Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice (with T. Kasulis and Wimal Dissanayake), all published by SUNY Press.