Foreword: a fascination with china / by David Fasenfest
Preface
Introduction: the goal of this book
Familism : a threat to the environment
Exchanges of threats : the opium wars
China and the US : a balance of power?
Religions: core components of cultures
Religious vitality in contemporary China
Max Weber's view of religion in China
Daoism : China's native religion
Oracle-bones : the mandate of heaven
Confucius : recapture the lost splendor
The West : individualism at its limits
China : the kinship society
China : a threatening promise to the West.