This book traces ideological trends in China through a range of historical and comparative perspectives, spanning the ancient belief systems of Confucianism, Legalism, and Taoism to political ideologies of the present day.

Part 1: Traditional Chinese Ideology 1. Introduction: Ideology, The Importance, and the Characteristics of Chinese Ideology. 2. Roots and Branches: Self-Cultivation as Political Transformation in Neo Confucian Thought. 3. Once Upon a Pandemic: Confucius, Rosemont, Marx, Deleuze and the Opportunity for a Confucian Ideology. 4. The Daoist Contribution to Chinese Ideology: A Political Reading of Heshang Gong's Daodejin. 5. Ideologies of Measurement in Early Imperial China. Part 2: Ideology of the Republic 6. Sun Yat-sen and The San Min Chu I Lectures as Ideology 7. Li Dazhao and China's Embracement of Marxism. 8. Fascism with Chinese Characteristics: Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Vision in the 1930s and Implications for U.S.-PRC Rivalry Today. 9. Liang Qichao and Affective Nationalism. Part 3: Maoism as An Ideology. 10. The Living Soul of Mao Zedong Thought 11. Global Maoism. Part 4: Post Mao Ideology 12. Assessing the Era of Jiang Zemin 13. Ideology-Building under Hu Jintao: Reacting to Jiang and Paving the Way for Xi. 14. Some Reflections on the Functions of Xi Jinping's Thought. 15. A Reversal of the Reform? China's Fifth Constitutional Amendment