James D. Sellmann 
Timing and Rulership in Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annals (Lüshi chunqiu) [PDF ebook] 

Acknowledgments
A Note Concerning Conventions Used in This Book

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Lüshi chunqiu’s Background and Foreground

Lü Buwei and the LSCQ
Season Timing (chunqiu) and the Nature of the LSCQ
The LSCQ’s Impact
The Mythification of History

Chapter 2. The LSCQ’s Programmatic Conceptions of Xing: Cultivating Desires in the Process of Life

The LSCQ’s Seasonal Arrangement of Traditional Theories on Xing

Chapter 3. An Emergent Social Order

Human Character and Social Order: An Analogy
A Survey of Pre-Qin Organic and Instrumental Positions and Their Impact on the LSCQ
The LSCQ’s Uniþed Eclectic Conception on the Origin and Role of the State: An Organic Instrumental Position

Chapter 4. Proper Timing in the Cosmic, Historical, and Moral Realms

Cosmic and Seasonal Proper Timing
Historical Proper Timing
Proper Timing in Moral and Interpersonal Relations

Chapter 5. Applying Proper Timing to Contemporary Issues

Is Social and Political Philosophy Culture Bound?
Contemporary Philosophy and the LSCQ

Appendix I. Phenomenological and Etymological Conceptions of Timing (Shi)

Appendix II. A Study of Xingming zhi Qing in the LSCQ: The Achievement of One’s Character (Xing) in One’s Natural Relations (Ming)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

James D. Sellmann is Professor of Philosophy and Director of East Asian Studies at the University of Guam.