Half Title Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Epistemology and its colonies-On the cultural conditioning of cognition -- I. Chinese Philosophy and Chinese Epistemology-Uncovering a Hidden Relationship -- II. The Decline of Tradition-Despotism and the Escape into Inwardness -- III. Chinese Modernity-The Era of Spiritual and Political Transitions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index