Editor's Note

Abstract

In this and some succeeding issues of Chinese Studies in Philosophy we are concentrating on articles from mainland China that deal with anti-Confucianism from the so-called Legalist point of view and the Legalist reinterpretation of some unorthodox thinkers in Chinese intellectual history. Often such discussions are based on some superimposed dichotomization of Confucian and Legalist points of view. For the Western reader, the political contexts for such efforts are probably more telling than their contents.