CONFUCIAN TRADITIONS
Bibliography (books)

All the following books are in the Consort or OhioLink libraries.  The letters at the end of each entry are a very rough indication of the emphasis of each book, in the following overlapping categories:

P = Philosophy, in most cases religious philosophy
H = History and society
R = Religion, other than religious philosophy

Contents:

I.  Translations of the Classics
II.  General
III. Classical Confucianism
IV. Neo-Confucianism (Tang-Song-Yuan-Ming)
V. Qing Confucianism
VI. Confucianism in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
VII. Confucianism and Modernity / Confucianism and the West
VIII. Journals

I.  TRANSLATIONS OF THE CLASSICS

  • James Legge.  The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism. Sacred Books of the East; v. 3, 16, 27, 28. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1968-70.
  • James Legge.  The Chinese Classics, 2nd ed. With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Prolegomena, and Copious Indexes. 1893; rpt. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1960.
  • Richard Wilhelm. The I Ching, or Book of Changes.  Eng. trans. Cary F. Baynes.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.
  • Richard John Lynn. The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1994.
  • Richard Rutt.  The Book of Changes (Zhouyi): A Bronze Age Document.  Richmond, Surrey:  Curzon, 1996.
  • Edward L. Shaughnessy.  I Ching: the Classic of Changes.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.
  • Arthur Waley. The Book of Songs [Shih Ching].  New York:  Grove Press, 1987.
  • Burton Watson.  The Tso Chuan: Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

  • Daniel K. Gardner, trans. The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2007.
  • Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall, trans. Focusing the Familiar: ATranslation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
  • Andrew Plaks, trans. Ta Hsüeh and Chung Yung (The Highest Order of Cultivation and on the Practice of the Mean). London: Penguin Books, 2003.

  • James Legge.  Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean. With critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena, copious indexes, and dictionary of all characters.  NY: Dover, 1971. [reprinted from The Chinese Classics]
  • Arthur Waley. The Analects of Confucius.  London:  George Allen & Unwin, 1938.
  • Ezra Pound. Confucius: The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, and The Analects. Stone text from rubbings supplied by William Hawley. A note on the stone editions by Achilles Fang.  NY: New Directions, 1951. [More useful for Pound than for Confucius.]
  • D. C. Lau.  The Analects.  Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979.
  • D. C. Lau.  The Analects (Lun yü) / Confucius.  Bilingual edition. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1983.
  • Raymond Dawson.  The Analects.  Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Simon Leys. The Analects of Confucius. NY: W.W. Norton, 1997
  • Huang Chichung.  The Analects of Confucius: A Literal Translation.  NY: Oxford, 1997.
  • E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks.  The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors. NY: Columbia, 1998.
  • Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont, Jr. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation. NY: Ballantine, 1998.
  • David Hinton.  The Analects / Confucius.  Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998.
  • David H. Li.  The Analects of Confucius: A New-millennium Translation. Bethesda: Premier Publ., 1999.
  • Edward Slingerland. Confucius: Analects -- with selections from traditional commentaries. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003.
  • Edward Slingerland. The Essential Analects: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006.
  • Daniel K. Gardner. Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition. NY: Columbia University Press, 2003.

  • D.C. Lau. Mencius.  Harmondsworth; New York: Penguin Books, 1970.
  • D.C. Lau. Mencius. Bilingual edition.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1984.
  • Van Norden, Bryan W. Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2008.
  • W.A.C.H. Dobson.  Mencius: A New Translation Arranged and Annotated for the General Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963.

  • Burton Watson, trans., Hsün Tzu: Basic Writings.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1963.
  • John Knoblock.  Xunzi [Hsün-tzu]: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988-[1990].
  • Homer Hasenpflug Dubs.  Hsüntze: The Moulder of Ancient Confucianism. London: A. Probsthain, 1927.

  • Mary Lelia Makra, trans., The Hsiao Ching [Classic of Filial Piety].  New York: St. John's University Press, 1961.
  • Richard Barnhart, Li Kung-lin's Classic of Filial Piety [handscroll] (NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993)
II.  GENERAL  
  • Allinson, Robert E., ed.  Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots. Hong Kong; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. [P]
  • Ames, Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake and Thomas P. Kasulis, Eds.  Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. [P]
  • Bauer, Wolfgang.  China and the Search for Happiness: Recurring Themes in Four Thousand Years of Chinese Cultural History. New York: Seabury Press, 1976. [P]
  • Daniel A. Bell, ed., Confucian Political Ethics. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2007. [P]
  • Berthrong, John H.  Transformations of the Confucian Way.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.[H]
  • Berthrong, John H. and Evlyn Nagai Berthrong.  Confucianism: A Short Introduction.  Oxford: Oneworld Publ., 2000.
  • Bishop, Donald H., ed. Chinese Thought: An Introduction. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1985. [P]
  • Bloom, Irene, and Fogel, Joshua A., eds.  Meeting of Minds: Intellectual and Religious Interaction in East Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Honor of Wing-tsit Chan and William Theodore De Bary.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. [H, P]
  • Bodde, Derk.  Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-modern China.  Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1991. [P]
  • Chan, Wing-tsit, trans. and comp.  A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1963. [P]
  • Chang Wonsuk and Leah Kalmanson, eds., Confucianism in Context: Classic Philosophy and Contemporary Issues, East Asia and Beyond. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010. [P]
  • Cheng, Hsüeh-li, ed. New Essays in Chinese Philosophy. New York : Peter Lang, 1997.
  • Ch'eng, Chung-ying.  New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy. Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1991. [P]
  • Chi Yün.  Shadows in a Chinese Landscape:  The Notes of a Confucian Scholar.  Translated by David L. Keenan.  Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. [H]
  • Ching, Julia.  Mysticism and Kingship in China: The Heart of Chinese Wisdom.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [P]
  • Chow, Kai-wing, On-cho Ng, and John B. Henderson, eds. Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
  • de Bary, William Theodore, and Bloom, Irene, eds.  Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd ed., vol. 1.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1999.  [H, P]
  • de Bary, William Theodore.  East Asian Civilizations: A Dialogue in Five Stages.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. [P,H]
  • de Bary, William Theodore. The Trouble with Confucianism.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. [P,R]
  • Eber, Irene, ed.  Confucianism: The Dynamics of Tradition.  New York: Macmillan, 1986. [P,H]
  • Fairbank, John King, ed.  Chinese Thought and Institutions.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957. [P,H]
  • Feng Yu-lan.  A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. New York: Macmillan, 1948. [P]
  • Feng Yu-lan.  A History of Chinese Philosophy, 2 vols.  Trans. Derk Bodde.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1952-53. [P]
  • Gardner, Daniel K.  The Four Books: Confucian Teaching in Late Imperial China. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007.
  • Goldin, Paul R. After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
  • Goldin, Paul R. Confucianism. Berkely: University of California Press, 2011.
  • Graham, A. C.  Studies in Chinese Philosophy & Philosophical Literature. Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies, National University of Singapore, 1986. [P]
  • Hershock, Peter D. and Roger T. Ames, eds. Confucian Cultures of Authority. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
  • Ivanhoe, P. J.  Confucian Moral Self Cultivation.  New York: P. Lang, 1993. [P,R]
  • Ivanhoe, Philip J.  Ethics in the Confucian Tradition:  The Thought of Mencius and Wang Yang-ming.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990. [P]
  • Ivanhoe, Philip J., ed. Chinese Language, Thought, and Culture: Nivison and His Critics.  Chicago:  Open Court, 1996. [P]
  • Ivanhoe, Philip J.  Confucian Moral Self Cultivation, 2nd ed.  Indianapolis: Hackett Publ., 2000.
  • Ivanhoe, Philip J.  Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming, 2nd ed.  Indianapolis: Hackett Publ., 2002.
  • Jensen, Lionel M.  Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions & Universal Civilization.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. [H]
  • Jiang, Xinyan, ed. The Examined Life -- Chinese Perspectives: Essays on Chinese Ethical Ttraditions. Binghamton: Global Publications, 2002. [P]
  • Kern, Martin, ed. Text and Ritual in Early China. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2006. [R]
  • Li, Chenyang, ed. The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender. Chicago: Open Court, 2000.
  • Little, Reg and Reed, Warren. The Confucian Renaissance.  Annandale, NSW: Federation Press, 1989. [H]
  • Liu, Shu-hsien.  Understanding Confucian Philosophy: Classical and Sung-Ming.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. [P]
  • Moore, Charles A., ed.  The Chinese Mind:   Essentials of Chinese Philosophy and Culture.  Honolulu, East-West Center Press 1967. [P]
  • Murray, Julia K. Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
  • Neville, Robert C.  The Puritan Smile:  A Look Toward Moral Reflection.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. [R,P]
  • Neville, Robert C.  Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.  [R,P]
  • Nivison, David S. ed.  Confucianism in Action.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959.  [H]
  • Nivison, David S. The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy, edited with an introduction by Bryan W. Van Norden.  Chicago: Open Court, 1996. [P]
  • Paul, Gregor.  Aspects of Confucianism: A Study of the Relationship Between Rationality and Humaneness.  Frankfurt am Main and New York:  Peter Lang, 1990.  [P]
  • Richey, Jeffrey L., ed. Teaching Confucianism. NY: Oxford, 2008.
  • Ropp, Paul S., ed.  Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. [H]
  • Rosemont, Henry G., ed.  Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to Angus C. Graham.  La Salle:  Open Court, 1991. [P]
  • Sharma, Arvind, ed.  Women in World Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.
  • Shryock, John Knight.  The Origin and Development of the State Cult of Confucius.  New York and London:  The Century Co., 1932.  [H,R]
  • Shun, Kwong-loi, and David B. Wong. Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Tang Yi-jie.  Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Chinese Culture.  Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1991. [P]
  • Tang Yi-jie, Li Zhen, and McLean, George F., eds.  Man and Nature: The Chinese Tradition and the Future.  Lanham:  University Press of America, 1989.  [P]
  • Taylor, Rodney Leon.  The Religious Dimensions of Confucianism.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.  [R]
  • Taylor, Rodney Leon.  The Way of Heaven: An Introduction to the Confucian Religious Life.  Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986.  [R]
  • Tu, Ching-i, ed. Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Traditions in Chinese Culture. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2000.
  • Tu, Wei-ming.  Humanity and Self-Cultivation:  Essays in Confucian Thought.  Berkeley:  Asian Humanities Press, 1979.  [P]
  • Tu, Wei-ming.  Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation.  Albany:  State University of New York  Press, 1985.  [P]
  • Tu, Wei-ming.  Way, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. [P,H]
  • Tu Weiming and Mary Evelyn Tucker, eds., Confucian Spirituality, 2 vols. (NY: Crossroad, 2003-04). [P,R]]
  • Tucker, Mary Evelyn, and Berthrong, John.  Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans.  Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1998. [R,P]
  • Wilson, Thomas A., ed.  On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. [H, R]
  • Wright, Arthur F., ed.  The Confucian Persuasion.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960.  [P,H]
  • Wright, Arthur F., ed.  Confucian Personalities.  Stanford: Stanford  University Press, 1962. [H]
  • Wright, Arthur F., ed.  Studies in Chinese Thought.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953. [P,H]
  • Wu, I.  Chinese Philosophical Terms. Lanham: University Press of America, 1986. [P]
  • Wu, Pei-yi.  The Confucian's Progress: Autobiographical Writings in Traditional China.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1990. [H]
  • Yao, Xinzhong.  An Introduction to Confucianism.  Cambridge University Press, 2000. [H, R]
III.  CLASSICAL CONFUCIANISM  
  • Alexander, Donald Leroy.  The Concept of T'ien in the Confucian Thought of the Late Chou Dynasty and its ethical implications. Ph.D. thesis, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1981. [P]
  • Ariel, Yoav.  K'ung-Ts'ung-Tzu: the K'ung Family Masters' Anthology:  A Study and Translation of Chapters 1-10, 12-14.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.
  • Birdwhistell, Joanne D. Mencius and Masculinities: Dynamics of Power, Morality, and Maternal Thinking. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.
  • Bockover, Mary I., ed.  Rules, Rituals, and Responsibility: Essays Dedicated to Herbert Fingarette.  La Salle: Open Court, 1991. [P]
  • Cai, Liang. Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire. Albany: SUNY Press, 2014. [H]
  • Chan, Alan K., ed. Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations. Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2002.
  • Creel, H.G.  Confucius:  The Man and the Myth.  [H,P]
  • Cua, A. S.  Dimensions of Moral Creativity: Paradigms, Principles, and Ideals.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. [P]
  • Cua, A. S.  Ethical Argumentation:  A Study in Hsün Tzu's Moral Epistemology.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. [P]
  • Cua, A. S. Moral Vision and Tradition: Essays in Chinese Ethics.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1998. [P]
  • Dawson, Raymond.  Confucius.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1980. [H,P]
  • Graham, A. C.  Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China.  La Salle: Open Court, 1989. [P]
  • Hall, David L., and Ames, Roger T.  Thinking Through Confucius. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. [P]
  • Hall, David L., and Ames, Roger T.  Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. [P]
  • Hall, David L., and Ames, Roger T.   Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. [P]
  • Hall, David L., and Ames, Roger T.   The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China.  Chicago: Open Court, 1999. [P]
  • Hsiao Kung-chuan.  A History of Chinese Political Thought.  Trans. Frederick Mote.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. [P]
  • Huang Chun-chieh. Mencian Hermeneutics. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2001.
  • Jones, David, ed. Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects. Chicago: Open Court, 2008. [P, R]
  • Kline, T.C. III and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds.  Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000. [P]
  • Lenk, Hans, and Paul, Gregor, eds.  Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York, 1993. [P]
  • Liu, Xiusheng and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002. [P]
  • Machle, Edward J.  Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi: A Study of the Tian Lun. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. [P]
  • Makeham, John. Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003.
  • Moran, Patrick Edwin.  Three Smaller Wisdom Books: Lao Zi's Dao De Jing, the Great Learning (Da Xue), and the Doctrine of the Mean (Zhong Yong).  Lanham: University Press of America, 1993.  [P]
  • Munro, Donald J.  The Concept of Man in Early China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969. [P]
  • Obenchain, Diane Burdette.  Ministers of the Moral Order: Innovations of the Early Chou Kings, the Duke of Chou, Chung-ni and Ju. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1984. [P,H]
  • Pines, Yuri. Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E. Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2002.
  • Raphals, Lisa Ann.  Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. [P]
  • Roetz, Heiner.  Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age: A Reconstruction Under the Aspect of the Breakthrough Toward Postconventional Thinking.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. [P]
  • Rosemont, Henry G., and Schwartz, Benjamin I., eds.  Studies in Classical Chinese Thought.  Chico: American Academy of Religion, 1980. [P]
  • Sato, Masayuki.  The Confucian Quest for Order: The Origin and Formation of the Political Thought of Xun Zi (Leiden: Brill, 2003)
  • Schwartz, Benjamin Isadore.  The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. [P]
  • Smith, D. Howard.  Confucius.  NY:  Scribner's, 1973.  [H,R,P]
  • Stalnaker, Aaron. Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006. [P]
  • Tu Wei-ming.  Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Confucian Religiousness.  Rev. and enl. ed.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1989. [P,R]
  • Van Norden, Bryan W., ed. Confucius and the Analects: New Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Van Norden, Bryan W. Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [P]
  • Wei, Cho-min.  The Political Principles of Mencius. Washington: University Publications of America, 1977. [P]
  • Yao, Xinzhong. Wisdom in Early Confucian and Israelite Traditions. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006. [P]
  • Yearley, Lee H.  Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.  [P]
IV. NEO-CONFUCIANISM (TANG-SONG-YUAN-MING)  
  • Adler, Joseph A.  Divination and Philosophy:  Chu Hsi's Understanding of the I Ching.  Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1994. [R,P]
  • Angle, Stephen C. Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012.
  • Barrett, Timothy Hugh. Li Ao: Buddhist, Taoist, or Neo-Confucian? New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. [P]
  • Berling, Judith A.  The Syncretic Religion of Lin Chao-en.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.  [H,R,P]
  • Berthrong, John H.  All under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian Dialogue.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.  [P,R]
  • Birdwhistell, Anne D.  Transition to Neo-Confucianism: Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. [P]
  • Birge, Bettine.  Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368).  Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Black, Alison Harley.  Man and Nature in the Philosophical Thought of Wang Fu-chih.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989. [P]
  • Bol, Peter.  "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1992.  [H,P]
  • Bruce, Joseph Percy.  Chu Hsi and His Masters: an Introduction to Chu Hsi and the Sung School of Chinese Philosophy.  London:  Probsthain, 1923. [P]
  • Chaffee, John W.  The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China: A Social History of Examinations.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Chan, Hok-lam, and de Bary, William Theodore, Eds.  Yüan Thought: Chinese Thought and Religion under the Mongols.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.  [P,R]
  • Chan, Hok-lam.  Legitimation in Imperial China: Discussions Under the Jurchen-Chin Dynasty (1115-1234).  Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1984.
  • Chan, Wing-tsit.  Chu Hsi: New Studies.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. [H,P,R]
  • Ch'en Ch'un [1159-1223].  Neo-Confucian Terms Explained: The Pei-hsi Tzu-i.  Trans. Wing-tsit Chan.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. [P]
  • Chang, Carsun [Chün-mai].  The Development of Neo-Confucian Thought, 2 vols.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1957.  [P]
  • Ch'en, Jo-shui.  Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.  [P,H]
  • Ch'ien, Edward T.  Chiao Hung and the Restructuring of Neo-confucianism in the Late Ming. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. [P,R]
  • Ching, Julia.  The Religious Thought of Chu Hsi.  Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. [P, R]
  • Chiu-Duke,  Josephine.  To Rebuild the Empire: Lu Chih's Confucian Pragmatist Approach to the Mid-T'ang Predicament (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000) [H]
  • Chu Hsi [1130-1200].  Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically.  Trans. Daniel K. Gardner.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
  • Chu Hsi. Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change (I-hsüeh ch'i-meng). Trans. Joseph A. Adler. Provo: Global Scholarly Publications, 2002.
  • Chu Hsi and Lü Tsu-ch'ien, comps.  Reflections on Things at Hand: the Neo-confucian Anthology.  Trans. Wing-tsit Chan.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1967. [P]
  • Chu Hsi.  Further Reflections on Things at Hand: A Reader.  Trans. Allen Wittenborn.  Lanham: University Press of America, 1991. [P]
  • Chu Hsi.  Chu Hsi's Family Rituals: A Twelfth-century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites.  Trans. Patricia Buckley Ebrey.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. [R,H]
  • Cua, A. S.  The Unity of Knowledge and Action: a Study in Wang Yang-ming's Moral Psychology.  Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1982. [P]
  • de Bary, Wm. Theodore, ed.  Self and Society in Ming Thought.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1970.  [P,H]
  • de Bary, Wm. Theodore, ed.  The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1975.  [P,H]
  • de Bary, Wm. Theodore, and Irene Bloom, eds.  Principle and Practicality: Essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1979.  [P,H]
  • de Bary, William Theodore.  Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1981. [P,H]
  • de Bary, William Theodore.  The Liberal Tradition in China.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, and New  York: Columbia University Press, 1983. [P,H]
  • de Bary, Wm. Theodore, and JaHyun Kim Haboush, eds.  The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1985.  [P,H]
  • de Bary, Wm. Theodore, and John W. Chaffee, eds.  Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.  [P,H]
  • de Bary, William Theodore.  The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. [P]
  • de Bary, William Theodore.  Learning for One's Self: Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. [P]
  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, trans.  Chu Hsi's Family Rituals: A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley.  Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. [H,R]
  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley.  Family and Property in Sung China: Yüan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life.  Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1984.
  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley.  The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period.  Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1993.
  • Gardner, Daniel K.  Chu Hsi and the Ta-hsueh: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon.  Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard  University, 1986. [P]
  • Graham, A. C.  Two Chinese Philosophers: Ch'eng Ming-tao and Ch'eng Yi-ch'uan.  London: Lund Humphries, 1958. [P]
  • Haeger, John Winthrop.  Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975. [H,P]
  • Hartman, Charles.  Han Yü and the T'ang Search for Unity.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. [H,P]
  • Henderson, John B.  Scripture, Canon, and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis. Princeton University Press, 1991. [R]
  • Henderson, John B.  The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. [R]
  • Hon, Tze-ki. The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960-1127. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. [H, P]
  • Hymes, Robert, and Schirokauer, Conrad, eds.  Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  • Hymes, Robert.  Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • Jay, Jennifer W.  A Change in Dynasties: Loyalism in Thirteenth-Century China. Bellingham: Western Washington University Press, 1991. [H]
  • Lee, Thomas H.C. Government Education and Examinations in Sung China. New York: St. Martin's; Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1985.
  • Liu, James T.C., Reform in Sung China:  Wang An-shih (1021-1086) and His New Policies.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.  [H,P]
  • Liu, James T.C., Ou-yang Hsiu:  An Eleventh-Century Neo-Confucian.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1962.  [H,P]
  • Liu, James T. C.  China Turning Inward: Intellectual-Political Changes in the Early Twelfth Century.  Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1988. [H,P]
  • Lo Ch'in-shun [1465-1547].  Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'un Chih Chi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. [P,R]
  • Makeham, John, ed. Dao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. (Also available online through OhioLink.)
  • McMullen, David L.  State and Scholars in T'ang China.  Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988. [H]
  • Metzger, Thomas A.  Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. [P,H]
  • Miyazaki Ichisada.  China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China [1963].  Trans. Conrad Schirokauer.  1976; rpt. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press,
  • Mungello, David E.  Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1977.  [H,P]
  • Munro, Donald J., ed.  Individualism and Holism: Studies in Confucian and Taoist Values.  Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1985. [P]
  • Munro, Donald J.  Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1988. [P]
  • Pines, Yuri. Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 BCE (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002)
  • Sasoon, Yun.  Critical Issues in Neo-Confucian Thought.  Korea University Press, 1992. [P]
  • Smith, Kidder, Jr.; Bol, Peter K.; Adler, Joseph A.; Wyatt, Don J.  Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. [P,H,R]
  • Taylor, Rodney Leon.  The Confucian Way of Contemplation: Okada Takehiko and the Tradition of Quiet-Sitting. Columbia:  University of South Carolina Press, 1988.  [R]
  • Taylor, Rodney Leon.  The Cultivation of Sagehood as a Religious Goal in Neo-Confucianism: A Study of Selected Writings of Kao P`an-lung (1562-1626). Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1978.  [P,R]
  • Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland.  Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. [P,H]
  • Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland.  Ch'en Liang on Public Interest and the Saw.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.  [P,H]
  • Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland.  Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi.  Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard  University, 1982. [H,P]
  •  Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland, and West, Stephen H., eds.  China under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. [P,H]
  • Wang Yang-ming [1472-1529].  Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writing.  Trans. Wing-tsit Chan.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. [P]
  • Wang Yuan-kang. Harmony & War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics. NY: Columbia University Press, 2010.
  • Wilson, Thomas A.  Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. [P]
  • Wood, Alan Thomas.  Limits to Autocracy: From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political Rights in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. [P]
  • Wyatt, Don J.  The Recluse of Loyang: Shao Yung and the Moral Evolution of Early Sung Thought.  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996. [P]
V.  QING CONFUCIANISM    
  • Black, Alison Harley.  Man and Nature in the Philosophical Thought of  Wang Fu-chih.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.
  • Ch'eng, Chung-ying.  Tai Chên's Inquiry into Goodness: A Translation of the Yuan Shan, with an Introductory Essay. Honolulu, East-West Center Press, 1971. [P]
  • Chin, Ann-ping, and Freeman, Mansfield, trans.  Tai Chen [1724-1777] on Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.  [P]
  • Chow, Kai-wing.  The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.  [P,H]
  • Elman, Benjamin A.  Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch`ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.  [P,H]
  • Elman, Benjamin A. from Philosophy to Philology:  Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China.  Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1984.  [P,H]
  • Elman, Benjamin A., and Woodside, Alexander, eds.  Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.  [H]
  • Huang, Chin-shing. Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-century China: Li Fu and Lu-Wang School Under the Chʻing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [H]
  • Ng, On-cho. Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (1642-1718) and Qing Learning. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
  • Nivison, David S. The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, 1738-1801. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.
VI.  CONFUCIANISM IN JAPAN, KOREA AND VIETNAM   
  • Chung, Edward Y. J.  The Korean Neo-confucianism of Yi T`oegye and Yi Yulgok: a Reappraisal of the "Four-seven Thesis" and its Practical Implications for Self-cultivation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.  [P,R]
  • de Bary, William Theodore, and Haboush, Jyahoun, eds.  The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. [P,H]
  • Deuchler, Martina.  The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1992. [H,P]
  • Dore, Ronald Philip.  Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.  [H,P]
  • Elman, Benjamin A., Duncan, John B., and Ooms, Herman, eds. Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, 2002.
  • Kalton, Michael C., trans. To Become a Sage: The Ten diagrams on Sage Learning, by Yi T'oegye. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. [P, R]
  • Kalton, Michael C.  The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. [P]
  • Kassel, Marleen.  Tokugawa Confucian Education: The Kangien Academy of Hirose Tanso (1782-1856).  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. [H]
  • Kim, Youngmin and Michael J. Pettid, eds. Women and Confucianism in Choson Korea: New Perspectives. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011.
  • McHale, Shawn Frederick. Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
  • Nosco, Peter, ed.  Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture. Princeton: Princeton  University Press, 1984. [P,H]
  • Palais, James B.  Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. [H]
  • Palmer, Spencer J.  Confucian Rituals in Korea.  Berkeley:  Asian Humanities Press, 1984. [R]
  • Ro, Young-chan.  The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1989. [P]
  • Sawada, Janine Anderson.  Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. [P,H,R]
  • Setton, Mark.  Chong Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.
  • Tran My-Van.  A Vietnamese Scholar in Anguish: Nguyen Khuyenand the Decline of Confucian Tradition, 1884-1909.  Singapore: Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1992.
  • Tucker, Mary Evelyn.  Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese  Neo-Confucianism:  The Life and thought of Kaibara Ekken, 1630-1740.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. [P,R]
  • Tucker, Mary Evelyn, trans. The Philosophy of Qi: The Record of Great Doubts (by Kaibara Ekken). New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
  • Yi Hwang [1501-1570].  To Become a Sage: The Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning. Trans. Michael Kalton.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. [P]
VII. CONFUCIANISM AND MODERNITY / CONFUCIANISM AND THE WEST 
  • Alitto, Guy.  The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1979. [H]
  • Bauer, Joanne R. and  Bell, Daniel A., eds.  The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [H,P]
  • Bell, Daniel A. and Hahm Chaibong, eds., Confucianism for the Modern World.  Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Bell, Daniel A. China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. Princeton University Press, 2008.
  • Berthrong, John H.  All Under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian Dialogue.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. [R]
  • Birdwhistell, Anne D.  Li Yong (1627-1705) and Epistemological Dimensions of Confucian Philosophy.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. [P]
  • Cheadle, Mary Paterson.  Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
  • Ching, Julia. Confucianism and Christianity: A Comparative Study.  Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1977. [R,P]
  • Conference on Confucianism and Economic Development in East Asia, May 29-31, 1989.  Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China: CIER Press, 1989. [H,P]
  • Davis, Michael C., Ed.  Human Rights and Chinese Values:  Legal, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives.  Hong Kong & New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [H, P]
  • de Bary, Wm. Theodore and Tu Weiming, eds.  Confucianism and Human Rights.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. [H, P]
  • de Bary, William Theodore.  Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. [H, P]
  • Fan, Ruiping, ed.  Confucian Bioethics. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. [P]
  • Fan, Ruiping, ed. The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. [H]
  • Kennedy,  Thomas L. and Micki Kennedy, eds.  Testimony of a Confucian Woman: The Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942 .  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
  • Kennedy, Thomas L., trans.  Confucian Feminist: Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978).  Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2002.
  • Krieger, Silke and Rolf Trauzettel eds. Confucianism and the Modernization of China. Mainz: V. Hase & Koehler Verlag, 1991. Especially Tu Wei-ming, "A Confucian Perspective on the Rise of Industrial East Asia."
  • Lee, Peter K.H., ed.  Confucian-Christian Encounters in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1991.  [P,R]
  • Levenson, Joseph Richmond.  Confucian China and its Modern Fate:  A Trilogy. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1958-64. [H,P]
  • Liu Honghe.  Confucianism in the Eyes of a Confucian Liberal: Hsu Fu-kuan's Critical Examination of the Confucian Political Tradition.  NY: Peter Lang, 2001.
  • Liu Shu-hsien. Essentials of Contemporary Neo-Confucian Philosophy.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
  • Louie, Kam.  Critiques of Confucius in Contemporary China. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.  [P,H]
  • Louie, Kam.  Inheriting Tradition: Interpretations of the Classical Philosophers in Communist China,  1949-1966.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. [P,H]
  • Makeham, John, ed. New Confucianism: A Critical Examination. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  • Makeham, John. Lost Soul: "Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
  • Mou, Bo. Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy. Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. [P]
  • Muhlhahn, Klaus and Nathalie van Looy, eds.. The Globalization of Confucius and Confucianism. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012. [H]
  • Neville, Robert C.  Boston Confucianism: A Portable Tradition in the Late Modern World.  SUNY, 2000.
  • Rozman, Gilbert, ed.  The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage and its Modern Adaptation.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. [H]
  • Standaert, N.  Yang Tingyun: Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China: His Life and Thought. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1988.  [H]
  • Tai Hung-chao, ed.  Confucianism and Economic Development: An Oriental Alternative?  Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute Press, 1989. [H]
  • Tamney, Joseph B. and Linda Hsueh-Ling Chiang.  Modernization, Globalization, and Confucianism in Chinese Societies.  Westport: Praeger, 2002.  [H]
  • Tu Wei-ming, et. al., eds., The Confucian World Observed [P,H]
  • Tu Wei-ming, ed.  Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity:  Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-dragons.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. [H]
  • Wen, Haiming. Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. [P]
  • Wong, Sin Kiong, ed. Confucianism, Chinese History, and Society. Hackensack: World Scientific, 2012.
  • Yang, Fenggang and Joseph Tamney, eds. Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2012.
  • Yao Souchou.  Confucian Capitalism: Discourse, Practice and the Myth of Chinese Enterprise.  NY:  RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
  • Young, John D.  East-West Synthesis: Matteo Ricci and Confucianism.  Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1980.  [H,R]
  • Yu, Kam-por, Julia Tao, and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds. Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010
  • Zhang, Wei-bin.  Confucianism and Modernization: Industrialization and Democratization of the Confucian Regions.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

VIII.  JOURNALS 

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