Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Sŏn, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Posits the origin of a specifically Chinese concept of “word-meaning,” and sheds new light on the linguistic ideas in early Chinese philosophical texts.

Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.

An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.

The ancient concept of spontaneous self-causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self-organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic.

The first English-language translation of an important figure in modern Confucian thought.

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Draws on two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition to argue for the contemporary philosophical relevance of “culture.”

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.

Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.

Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.

A unique work on the underlying ontology, cosmology, and moral philosophy of the Yijing.

Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.

Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.