Varieties of statecraft and warfare ethics in early China: an overview / Ping-Cheung Lo -- The Art of War corpus and Chinese just war ethics past and present / Ping-Cheung Lo -- Warfare ethics in Sunzi's Art of War? Historical controversies and contemporary perspectives / Ping-Cheung Lo -- The classical Confucian position on the legitimate use of military force / Sumner B. Twiss and Jonathan K.L Chan -- Classical Confucianism, punitive expeditions, and humanitarian intervention / Sumner B. Twiss and Jonathan K.L. Chan -- Xunzi's moral analysis of war and some of its contemporary implications / Aaron Stalnaker -- Wang Yang-ming's ethics of war / Sumner B. Twiss and Jonathan K.L. Chan -- "Weapons are nothing but ominous instruments": the Daodejing's view on war and peace / Ellen Y. Zhang -- Zheng as zheng? A Daoist challenge to punitive expeditions / Ellen Y. Zhang -- Mohist arguments on war / Hui-Chieh Loy -- Legalism and offensive realism in the Chinese court debate on defending national security 81 BCE / Ping-Cheung Lo.