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Adler, Joseph A., 1999, “Zhou Dunyi: The Metaphysics and Practice of Sagehood,” in Sources of Chinese Tradition, William Theodore De Bary and Irene Bloom (eds.), 2^nd edition, 2 volumes, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
Ames, Roger T., 2011, Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary, Hong Kong and Honolulu: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press and University of Hawai’i Press. (Scholar)
Ames, Roger T. and David L. Hall (trans.), 2003, Dao De Jing—Making This Life Significant—A Philosophical Translation, New York: Ballantine Books. (Scholar)
Angle, Stephen C., 2009, Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Angle, Stephen C. and Justin Tiwald, 2017, Neo–Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction, Cambridge: Polity. (Scholar)
Bai, Tongdong, 2008, “An Ontological Interpretation of you (Something) (有) and wu (Nothing) (无) in the Laozi,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 35(2): 339–51. (Scholar)
Behuniak, James, 2004, Mencius on Becoming Human, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Billioud, Sébastien, 2012, Thinking Through Confucian Modernity: A Study of Mou Zongsan’s Metaphysics, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
Brindley, Erica Fox, 2012, Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Bruya, Brian, 2022, Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-Causation, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Burik, Steven, 2018, “Logos and Dao Revisited: A Non-Metaphysical Interpretation,” Philosophy East and West, 68(1): 23–41. (Scholar)
Chai, David, 2010, “Meontology in Early Xuanxue 玄學 Thought,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 37(1): 91–102. (Scholar)
–––, 2014a, “Meontological Generativity: A Daoist Reading of the Thing,” Philosophy East and West, 64(2): 303–318. (Scholar)
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–––, 2019, Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
––– (ed.), 2020, Dao Companion to Xuanxue 玄學 (Neo-Daoism), Berlin: Springer. (Scholar)
Chan, Alan Kam-Leung, 1999, Two Visions of the Way: A Study of the Wang Pi and the Ho-Shang Kung Commentaries on the Lao-Tzu, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Chan, Wing-tsit, 1964, “The Evolution of the Neo-Confucian Li as Principle,” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 4(2): 123–147. (Scholar)
––– (ed.), 1969, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Chan, N. Serina, 2011, The Thought of Mou Zongsan, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
Chen, Derong, 2011, Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan’s New Metaphysics, New York: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
Chen Qiyou 陳奇猷, 1984, Lüshi Chunqiu Xinshi 呂氏春秋新釋, Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Chubanshe. (Scholar)
Cheng, Chung-ying, 1990, “Chinese Metaphysics as Non-Metaphysics: Confucian and Daoist Insights into the Nature of Reality,” in Understanding the Chinese Mind, Robert E. Allinson (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 167–208. (Scholar)
–––, 2002, “On the Metaphysical Significance of ti (Body-Embodiment) in Chinese Philosophy: Benti (Original Substance) and ti-yong (Substance and Function),” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 29(2): 145–61. (Scholar)
–––, 2009, “Li 禮 [sic] and qi 氣 in the Yijing 《易經》: A Reconsideration of Being and Nonbeing in Chinese Philosophy,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 36(s1): 73–100. (Scholar)
Cheng, Chung-ying and Nicholas Bunnin (eds.), 2002, Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Chiu, Wai-wai, forthcoming, “Guo Xiang’s Concept of xing and the Reconciliation of Individuality with Social Hierarchy,” Philosophy East and West. (Scholar)
Chong, Kim-chong (ed.), 2022, Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi, Berlin: Springer. (Scholar)
Connolly, Tim, 2019, “The Metaphysical Background to Early Confucian Ethics,” Philosophy Compass, 14(12): e12627. (Scholar)
Cook, Francis H., 1977, Hua-yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
Cook, Scott, 2012, The Bamboo Texts of Guodian, Ithaca: Cornell East Asian Series. (Scholar)
Coutinho, Steve, 2013, An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, 2004, Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
Cua, Antonio S., 2002, “On the Ethical Significance of the Ti-Yong Distinction,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 29(2): 163–170. (Scholar)
Edelglass, William, and Jay Garfield (eds), 2009, Buddhist Philosophy—Essential Readings, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Fox, Alan (trans.), 2009, “Dushun’s Huayan Fajie Guan Men (Meditative Approaches to the Huayan Dharmadhātu),” in Edelglass and Garfield 2009, 73–82. (Scholar)
Fraser, Chris, 2007, “Language and Ontology in Early Chinese Thought,” Philosophy East and West, 57(4): 420–56. (Scholar)
–––, 2023, Late Classical Chinese Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Gao Heng 高亨, 1998, Zhouyi dachuan jinzhu 周易大傳今注, Jinan: Qilu Shushe. (Scholar)
Graham, Angus C., 1986, Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking, Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies. (Scholar)
–––, 1989, Disputers of the Tao, LaSalle, IL: Open Court Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1992 [1958], Two Chinese Philosophers: The Metaphysics of the Brothers Ch’eng, LaSalle, IL: Open Court. (Scholar)
Gregory, Peter N., 2002, Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. (Scholar)
––– (trans.), 2009, “Zongmi’s Yuanren lun (Inquiry into the Origin of the Human Condition): The Hermeneutics of Doctrinal Classification,” in Edelglass and Garfield 2009: 138–148. (Scholar)
Guo Qingfan 郭慶藩, 1978, Zhuangzi jishi 莊子集釋, Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju. (Scholar)
Hansen, Chad, 2001, “Metaphysical and Moral Transcendence in Chinese Thought,” in Two Roads to Wisdom?: Chinese and Analytic Philosophical Traditions, Bo Mou (ed.), LaSalle, IL: Open Court, pp. 197–227. (Scholar)
Henderson, John B., 1984, The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
Im, Manyul, 2007, “Horse-Parts, White-Parts, and Naming: Semantics, Ontology, and Compound Terms in the White Horse Dialogue,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 6(2): 167–85. (Scholar)
Ivanhoe, Philip J., 2002, Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming, Indianapolis: Hackett (2^nd edition). (Scholar)
––– (trans.), 2009, Readings from the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism, Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
–––, 2010, “Review of Peter K. Bol, Neo-Confucianism in History,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 9(4): 471–475. (Scholar)
–––, 2017, Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Ivanhoe, Philip J., Owen J. Flanagan, Victoria S. Harrison, Hagop Sarkissian, and Eric Schwitzgebel (eds.), 2018, The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
Jia, Jinhua, 2016, “From Human-Spirit Resonance to Correlative Modes: The Shaping of Chinese Correlative Thinking,” Philosophy East and West, 66(2): 449–74. (Scholar)
Jiang, Tao, 2021, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Kantor, Hans-Rudolf, 2015, “Concepts of Reality in Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism,” in Li and Perkins 2015a, pp. 130–151. (Scholar)
Kasoff, Ira E., 1984, The Thought of Chang Tsai, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Kim, Jung-Yeup, 2015, Zhang Zai’s Philosophy of Qi: A Practical Understanding, Lanham: Lexington. (Scholar)
Knoblock, John, and Jeffrey Reigel (trans.), 2000, The Annals of Lü Buwei: A Complete Translation and Study, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
Kwok, Sai Hang, 2016, “Zhuangzi’s Philosophy of Thing,” Asian Philosophy, 26(4): 294–310. (Scholar)
Lai, Karyn L., 2008, An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Le Blanc, Charles, 1985, Huai-nan Tzu: Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought: The Idea of Resonance (Kan-ying), Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. (Scholar)
Li, Chenyang, 2013, The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
Li, Chenyang and Franklin Perkins (eds), 2015a, Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2015b, “Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems: An Introduction,” in Li and Perkins 2015a, pp. 1–15. (Scholar)
Liu, JeeLoo, 2006, Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
–––, 2011, “Reconstructing Chinese Metaphysics,” Journal of East-West Thought, 1(1): 151–63. (Scholar)
–––, 2015, “In Defense of Chinese Qi-Naturalism,” in Li and Perkins 2015a, pp. 33–53. (Scholar)
–––, 2018, Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
Liu, JeeLoo and Douglas Berger (eds), 2014, Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
Liu, Jing, 2017, “Be-ing and non-be-ing in the Dao De Jing,” Asian Philosophy, 27(2):85–99. (Scholar)
Liu, Xiaogan (ed.), 2015, Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy, Berlin: Springer. (Scholar)
Major, John S., 1993, Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Makeham, John, 1994, Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
––– (ed.), 2010, Dao Companion to Neo-Confucianism, Berlin: Springer. (Scholar)
––– (ed.), 2014, Transforming Consciousness: Yogacara Thought in Modern China, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
McLeod, Alexus, 2018, The Philosophical Thought of Wang Chong, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
Michael, Thomas, 2005, The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Moeller, Hans-Georg (trans.), 2007, Dao De Jing, LaSalle, IL: Open Court. (Scholar)
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Odin, Steve, 1982, Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration Vs. Interpenetration, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
Perkins, Franklin, 2014, Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
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–––, 2016a, “Problems with Metaphysics in a Comparative Context,” in Chinese Philosophy and Methodologies, Sor-hoon Tan (ed.), London: Bloomsbury, pp. 183–198. (Scholar)
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Wang, Qingjie, 2013, “‘It-self-so-ing’ and ‘Other-ing’ in Laozi’s Concept of Zi Ran,” in Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy, Bo Mou (ed.), Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 225–244. (Scholar)
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