Introduction: why take Confucian ethics seriously? / Kam-por Yu, Julia Tao, Philip J. Ivanhoe -- What it means to take Chinese ethics seriously / Heiner Roetz -- The handling of multiple values in Confucian ethics / Kam-por Yu -- Humanity or benevolence? the interpretation of Confucian Ren and its modern implications / Qianfan Zhang -- East Asian conceptions of the public and private realms / Chun-chieh Huang -- Trust within democracy: a reconstructed Confucian perspective / Julia Tao -- A defense of Ren-based interpretation of early Confucian ethics / Shirong Luo -- Is sympathy naive?: Dai Zhen on the use of Shu to track well-being / Justin Tiwald -- The nature of virtues in light of the early Confucian tradition / Eirik L. Harris -- The values of spontaneity / Philip J. Ivanhoe.