Part 1 : The Text, the Man, the Ideas, 2. Harmonia Mundi in Homo-Mundane, Anthropo-Ecological, and Hsin-ch ’i-hsing Unity, 3. Social Dimension: “Rightness”(yi) Versus “Profit”(li), 4. Political Dimension: Populist Government of Familiar Empathy, Part 2: Mencius in Context, 5. Hermeneutics as Apologetics (I): Hsiin Tzu Contra Mencius, 6. Hermeneutics as Apologetics (II): Mind-Body Unity in On Five Activities, 7. Hermeneutics as Politics: The Sung Debates over the Mencius, 8. Hermeneutics as Pilgrimage (I): Impacts on Chu His, 9. Hermeneutics as Pilgrimage (II): Impacts on Wang Yangming, 10. Hermeneutics as Apologetics (III): Tai Chen's Mencian Normativity Within Desire, 11. Mencius’ Encounter with Modernity: T ’ang Chun-i, Hsu Fu-kuan, Mou Tsung-san, Epilogue: Chinese Hermeneutics as Politics, Apologetics, Pilgrimage