Toward the Creative Engagement of Chinese Thought -- Westernization as Barbarization : Culturalism, Universalism and Particularism -- Can Cultural Others be Historical Others? L The Curious Thesis of "Chinese origins for Western knowledge" (Xi xue Zhong yuan) -- Why Learning from Others is Political, not (only) Epistemological : Arguments for "Changing Referents" (Bianfa) -- How Meaning Moves : Tan Sitong's Metaphysics of Culture -- Where Knowledge Creates its Own Object : Yan Fu and Liang Qichao on "The Study of Groups" (Qunxue) -- Culture as History : Envisioning Change in the May Fourth Era -- The Culturally Unprecedented : "Old," "New," and the Political Tractability of Background Conditions -- Here and Now : Modern Chinese Thought as a Source of Innovation