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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.

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

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China's northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

Reintroduces the concept of "world literature" in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.

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 new translation and commentary of the Analects for contemporary audiences.

An encounter between Franke's philosophy of the unsayable and Eastern apophatic wisdom in the domains of poetry, thought, and culture.

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.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a "language crisis."

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.

Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

Proposes an "intra-cultural philosophy" based on John Dewey's "cultural turn" and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruct outmoded assumptions that continue to shape how we currently think.

Assesses John Dewey's visit to China in 1919-21 as an "intra-cultural" episode and promotes "Chinese natural philosophy" as a philosophical context in which to understand the connections between Dewey's philosophy and early Confucian thinking.

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.