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    Yao Xinzhong (Professor of Religion and Ethics)

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Xinzhong, Y. Knowledge, virtue, and joyfulness: Confucian wisdom revisited. Dao 5, 273–292 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868036

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