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Interpreting Confucius: The Aesthetic Turn and Its Challenges

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I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers of this journal for their valuable comments and suggestions. Research for this paper was supported by an SSRC grant MOE2016-SSRTG-007 and NTU Tier 1 grant M4011674.

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Li, C. Interpreting Confucius: The Aesthetic Turn and Its Challenges. Dao 17, 247–255 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-018-9604-z

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