Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living").

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.

Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

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

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States period (481–221 BCE).

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.