Chapter 1: Self-cultivation as the Basis ─ Self-cultivation of the Chinese.- Chapter 2: The State Has its Basis in the Family ─ The Chinese Family Ethics.- Chapter 3: Life Can’t be Without Community ─ the Social Ethics of the Chinese.- Chapter 4: Benevolence, Righteousness, Loyalty, and Integrity: Political Ethics in Ancient China.- Chapter 5: The Great Virtue of Heaven and Earth is Nurturing life ─ Environmental Ethics of the Chinese.- Chapter 6: World-Oriented Chinese Ethical Wisdom.

This book takes Confucian ethics as the main line, time and space as the longitude and latitude, and concisely demonstrates the changes of Chinese traditional ethics and their modern values. Its connotation starts from the basic moral norms of "five Ethics" and "five Virtues", and from the multi-dimensional perspectives of self-cultivation, family ethics, social ethics, political ethics, and environmental ethics. It highlights the core characteristics of the integration of individual virtues and public morals, such as benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, courtesy, leniency, faith, sensitivity, earnestness, kindness, goodness, virtue, and conduct, and discusses the ethical requirements of loyalty, harmony, filial piety, fraternity, and bravery, which are constantly gaining and losing with the changes of the times. This book focuses on the vitality of Chinese ethical innovation in the context of globalization and modernization, showing how it demonstrates its value in the complex process of dialogue with other civilizations in the world and interaction between China and foreign countries, and how it contributes to the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind and the promotion of world peace and prosperity.

Xinzhong Yao, distinguished professor and outstanding scholar of Renmin University of China, at the Ethics and Moral Construction Research Center of Renmin University of China, a key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, has won the title of Beijing Outstanding Worker in Colleges and Universities (1988), the first prize of Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award (2017), the second prize of China National Teaching Achievement Award (2018), and has authored or edited more than 20 academic works in Chinese and English.

Shuihuan Wang, lecturer at the School of Marxism, North China University of Technology, mainly focuses on political philosophy, ethics, and localization of Marxism in China. He was a lecturer and postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, and published several academic articles in such journals as Dushu, Academics, Zhejiang Social Sciences, and Research on the History of Publishing in China, etc.