Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Abstract ; The Encounter; Guiding Literature; Purpose of the Book; Methods of Inquiry and Emerging Themes; The Choice of Teacher Yu; References; Chapter 2 Memories and Imageries; Abstract ; Memories of Family and Childhood Images; Staying in the Academe; Identity Issue 1: What Am I?; Emergence of Scholarly Life; Combining Scholarship and Administration; Leading a "Five-Star Unit"; Venturing Back to School; Identity Issue 2: What Am I Doing?; References; Chapter 3 Sifting Through the Enigma of Tradition and Modernity.

Abstract The Grip of Tradition; The Cultural Revolution as Tradition; "Banality of Evil" as a Fact of Life; History, Modernity, and Postmodernity; References; Chapter 4 Balancing the Indigenous and the Foreign; Abstract ; The Discovery of "I" and Individuality; The Utilization of Western Ideas and Practices; "Chinese Aura"; Harmonious Convergence Under the Mean; References; Chapter 5 Navigating Educational Change; Abstract ; A Portrait of Career Transitions in Changing Educational Contexts; Forging Identity Amid Changing Roles; Officialism and the Basis of Docility.

Afterword: The Principal at His SchoolReferences; Bibliography; Index.