Primary Texts

Secondary Texts

• Allan, Sarah, 1984, “Drought, Human Sacrifice and the Mandate of Heaven in a Lost Text from the Shang shu”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 47(3): 523–39. (Scholar)
• Angle, Stephen C., 2009, Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy: Toward Progressive Confucianism, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• ––– and Justin Tiwald, 2017, Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• Bai, Tongdong, 2012, China: The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom, London: Zed Books. (Scholar)
• Bol, Peter K., 2008, Neo-Confucianism in History, Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center. (Scholar)
• Brooks, E. Bruce and A. Taeko Brooks (trans. and ed.), 1998, The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Chiu-Duke, Josephine, 2000, To Rebuild the Empire: Lu Chih’s Confucian Pragmatist Approach to the Mid-T’ang Predicament, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Creel, Herrlee G., 1974, Shen Pu-hai: A Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B.C., Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, 2006, Readings in Han Chinese Thought, Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Dardess, John W., 2002, Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620–1627, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
• de Bary, William Theodore, 1991, The Trouble with Confucianism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• de Bary, William Theodore and Irene Bloom (eds.), 1999, Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1, (2^nd edition), New York: Columbia University Press (Scholar)
• El Amine, Loubna, 2015, Classical Confucian Political Thought: A New Interpretation, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Elman, Benjamin A., 1989, “Imperial Politics and Confucian Societies in Late Imperial China: The Hanlin and Donglin Academies”, Modern China, 15(4): 379–418. (Scholar)
• Fraser, Chris, 2016, The Philosophy of the Mòzĭ: The First Consequentialists, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Harris, Eirik L., 2016, “Xunzi’s Political Philosophy”, in Eric Hutton (ed.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 95–138. (Scholar)
• Henricks, Robert G., 2000, Lao Tzu’s “Tao Te Ching”: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Hsiao, Kung-chuan, 1979, A History of Chinese Political Thought. Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century A.D., Frederick W. Mote (trans.), Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Kim, Sungmoon, 2020, Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Levey, Matthew, 1991, “Chu Hsi as a ‘Neo-Confucian’: Chu Hsi’s Critique of Heterodoxy, Heresy, and the ‘Confucian’ Tradition”, PhD dissertation, University of Chicago. (Scholar)
• Levine, Ari Daniel, 2008, Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
• Liu, James T.C., 1988, China Turning Inward: Intellectual-political changes in the early twelfth century, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Metzger, Thomas A., 2005, A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash Between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today, Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. (Scholar)
• Mou Zongsan 牟宗三, 1991, 《政道與治道》 [Authority and Governance], Taipei: Xuesheng Shuju. (Scholar)
• Niu, Pu, 1998, “Confucian Statecraft in Song China: Ye Shi and the Yongjia School”, PhD. dissertation, Arizona State University. (Scholar)
• Ong, Chang Woei, 2006, “The Principles are Many: Wang Tingxiang and Intellectual Transition in Mid-Ming China”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 66(2): 461–93. (Scholar)
• Pines, Yuri, 2012, The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Schirokauer, Conrad, 1978, “Chu Hsi’s Political Thought”, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 5: 127–48. (Scholar)
• Slingerland, Edward, 2003, Effortless Action: Wu-Wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Smith, Kidder, 2003, “Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, Legalism, et cetera”, Journal of Asian Studies, 62(1): 129–56. (Scholar)
• Song, Jaeyoon, 2015, Traces of Grand Peace: Classics and State Activism in Imperial China, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland, 1982, Utilitarian Confucianism, Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies. (Scholar)
• Tiwald, Justin, 2008, “A Right of Rebellion in the Mengzi?”, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 7(3): 269–82. (Scholar)
• Wilson, Thomas A, 1995, Genealogy of the way: the construction and uses of the Confucian tradition in late imperial China, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Zarrow, Peter, 2021, Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thoughts, 1880–1940, New York: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)