ABSTRACT
This chapter historicizes Chinese self-reflection as a confessional form of experience to map out some conjoined articulations as well as nuanced dissonance between the Confucian and Mao's Wind-Regulation discourses. Both trajectories, namely from Confucian care of self to Mao's self-reflection, and from Stoic care of self to Christian renunciation of self, share an overlapping shift from a care of self for a better life toward a renunciation of self for salvation. The former to be saved by the Party and the latter by God, An analytical tool that enabling us render visible, in both Mao's and Confucian texts, various specific techniques permitting individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform themselves.
