How important is Jiang Qing, whose extraordinary proposals for political change make up the core of the new book A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future? In his Introduction to the volume, co- editor Daniel Bell maintains that Jiang’s views are “intensely controversial” and that conversations about political reform in China rarely fail to turn to Jiang’s pro- posals. At least in my experience, this is something of an exaggeration. Chinese pol- itical thinking today is highly pluralistic, and for many participants Jiang is simply a curiosity—if indeed they are aware of him. Still, for three reasons Jiang is very much worth our attention. First, there is a vibrant and growing community of academics, activists, and intellectuals in China who engage Confucianism as a live, contempo- rary source of meaning, and Jiang is clearly one of the leaders of this group. Second, explicitly Confucian practices are being revived or re-invented in many areas of Chi- nese society, and a good number of those who are drawn to these activities are in- spired by Jiang (for example, by his handbook on reciting the Classics) or even supporters of Jiang (witness the fact that Jiang was able to establish his Yangming Jingshe Academy with private capital). Finally, some thinkers who are quite sympa- thetic to Confucianism—or even identify as Confucians—find Jiang’s ideas very trou- bling. We thus have ample reason to give Jiang serious attention, and this well-designed volume makes it possible to gain access to and engage with Jiang’s arguments in English.