Explores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.

Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.

Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?

Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.

A straightforward, accessible introduction to core theories in normative ethics from Western and non-Western philosophy suitable for the classroom.

Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.

Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.

Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.

Offers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.