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Translated by Scott Cook, Professor of Chinese, Grinnell College.

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Huang, J. A new perspective in the history of East Asian Confucianism: Some reflections on Confucian Hermeneutics. Dao 2, 235–260 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02857197

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