Chapter 1, Wang Fuzhi's Life and Dream1.1 Wang Fuzhi's Dream of Restoration1.2 Wang Fuzhi's Dream of Cultural Preservation1.3 Wang Fuzhi's Struggle between Dreams and Reality
Chapter 2 Wang Fuzhi's Reflection on the Ming's Collapse and the Manchu Conquest
2.1 Wang's Reflection on the Ming Institutions and Politics2.2 Wang Fuzhi's Reflection on Ming Culture and Scholarship2.3 Wang Fuzhi's Originality and His Times
Chapter 3 Political Reconstruction
3.1 The Three Universal Principles in the World3.2 The Enlightened Monarchy3.3 The Kingly Way
Chapter 4 Moral Reconstruction
4.1. Humanity4.2 The Heart-mind/xin 4.3 Human Nature, Feeling and Habit4.4 Desire and Principle4.5 Ritual Propriety4.6 Dao and De or the Way and Its Virtue
Chapter 5 Cosmological Reconstruction
5.1 Harmony and the Great Harmony 5.2 Heaven 5.3 The Necessity of Assisting Heaven5.4 The Feasibility of Assisting Heaven5.5 The Means of Assisting Heaven
Chapter 6 Wang Fuzhi's Influence in Modern China
6.1 Wang Fuzhi's Confucian System and Its Originality6.2 Wang Fuzhi's Inconsistencies 6.3 Wang Fuzhi's Methodological Problems6.4 An Overall Evaluation of Wang Fuzhi's System