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Papers

(The median citation count of Asian Philosophy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mindful wisdom: The path integrating memory, judgment, and attention	15
Non-humans in theZhuangzi: Animalism and anti-anthropocentrism	8
Chinese philosophy of life, relational ethics and the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Confucian freedom: assessing the debate	5
Forgetting oneself or personal identity in relation to time and otherness in theZhuangzi	4
Nāgārjuna and the concept of time	2
Xunzi: Moral education and transformation	2
Eastern and Western creativity of tradition	2
Zhuangzi’s evaluation ofqingand its relationship to knowledge	2
‘Confucianization of law’ revisited	2
Reading theZhuangziplayfully: Stepping back from ‘Ancient Chinese Wisdom’	2
Is Mohism reallyli-promotionalism?	1
An Abhidharmic theory of welfare	1
Sensibility and moral values in Mengzi’s metaethics	1
The skillful living in theZhuangzi, Buddhism, and Stoicism	1
Against the ban on women’s remarriage: Gendering ui 義 in Song Siyeol’s philosophy	1
The egalitarianism and non-egalitarianism of Buddhist ethics	1
The meanings of Zheng 正 in the Daoist classics	1
Yunjidang’s feminism and gender equality	1
The origin of human morality: An evolutionary perspective on Mencius’s notion of sympathy	1
On self-deception: from the perspective of Zhu Xi’s moral psychology	1
Ren 仁 (Humaneness) and Li 禮 (Ritual) in a painting metaphor from the perspective of contextual individuality	1
Avicenna on the problem of God’s knowledge of multiple things	1
The inconsistencies in Wang Chong’s Lunheng eliminated in the light of analogical reasoning	1
Two models of Confucian democracy: A contrastive analysis of Tang Junyi’s and Mou Zongsan’s political philosophy	1

Reconciling Confucianism with rule of law: Confucianisation or self-restraint?	1
A new dialogue on Yijing -the book of changes in a world of changes, instability, disequilibrium and turbulence	1
Is dharma-nature identical to ignorance? A study of ‘ji 即’ in early Tiantai Buddhism	1
Li Zehou’s ethics and the importance of Confucian kinship relations: the power of shamanistic rituality and the consolidation of relationalism (關係主義)	1
Reading Nishida Kitarō as a New Confucian: With a Focus on His Early Moral Philosophy	1
Wang Yangming, Descartes, and the Sino-European juncture of Enlightenment	1
Mindfulness and attention: Towards a phenomenology of mindfulness as the feeling of being tuned in	1
Ancient Chinese proofs for the existence of gods: The case of Mohism	1
The scope of the pramāṇas in classical and postclassical Sāṃkhya	1
A neglected interpretation of Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars	1
Re-visiting the role of craft in Zhuangzi’s philosophy	1
Zen words of the unsayable: An inquiry into Dōgen Zenji’s apophatic terminology	1
‘Immanent transcendence’: Toward a genealogical analysis of a key concept in the philosophy of Mou Zongsan (1909–1995)	1
Differences and similarities between the later-Wittgenstein’s philosophy of religion and the Islamic mystical tradition	1
Aesthetic appreciation of animals in China: a vision out of Western Aesthetics	1
Apocalyptic claims and the everyday: Tosaka Jun, history, and journalism	1
Sage and great person in Zhang Zai’s thought	0
Guo Xiang’s account of ideal personhood: Self-fulfillment without the admiration of sages	0
The Chinese concept of tolerance and the epochal spirit	0
Things, order, and the resurgence of contingency: Xiong Bolong 熊伯龍 (1617–1670) and his Wuhe ji 無何集	0
A logical analysis of the debate on Hao River	0
A new critique of Mou Zongsan’s Kantian interpretation of Mengzi’s ethics	0
Obituary: Dr Brian Carr (1946–2022)	0
The multifaceted perspective: Confucius’ political philosophy as manifested in his perception and engagement with Ji Shi 季氏 (the Ji family)	0
Philosophical incantations ( Itihāsa and Epode ). The power of narrative reason in the Mahābhārata	0
Time transcending tense: An examination of heng 恒 in pre-Qin Daoist philosophy	0
Zhuangzi as externalist: Reconciling two interpretations of the Happy Fish debate	0
On the philosophical function of the ‘sage’ in theLaozi	0
Reasserting the primacy of xing (human nature) and self-cultivation (xiushen): Li Cai’s (1529-1607) defense of Confucianism against the interpenetration of the three teachings	0
Emptiness, negation, and skepticism in Nāgārjuna and Sengzhao	0
Confucian philosophy of family: interpretation or justification?	0
Śaṅkara’s philosophy of dreaming: Constructing an unreal world	0
The silent speaker: A Nietzschean reading of Rūmī’s aesthetics of lyric poetry	0
The butterfly transformation and the anamorphosis: A posthumanist reading of gaze in Zhuang Zi and Jacques Lacan	0
The Confucian concepts of tianxia天下, yi-xia 夷夏and Chinese nationalism	0
Wrongdoing without a wrongdoer: ‘Empty ethics’ in Buddhism	0
玄德 mysterious virtue: Wu wei and the non-paradoxical politics of the Dao	0
Arthur Danto as a Zen master: an interpretation of Danto’s philosophy of art from a Zen perspective	0
Some suggestions on playing games through reading the15th Assembly of the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra	0
Antimessianism and the temporal ontology of Ibn ‘Arabī	0
Names exist when carving begins ( shi zhi you ming 始制有名): A theory of names in Daodejing (道德經)	0
Did Mīrdāmād believe in the primacy of quiddity?	0
‘Following along with things’ in different ways Zhuangzi’s thoughts on how to manage external affairs	0
Transforming knowledge to wisdom: Feng Qi and the new Neo-Marxist humanism	0
Assertive or indicative? A philosophical study on translating the Confucian concept you yu yi 游於藝	0
The concept of svasaṃvedana in Dignāga and Candrakīrti	0
Han Fei and conceptions of universal and Chinese human rights	0
Buddhism and Spinoza on the three kinds of knowledge	0
The art of setting up authority: Han Fei’s doctrine of Shi	0
A posthumanist reading of the “happy” fish in The Zhuangzi	0

Confucian propriety without inequality: A Daoist (and feminist) re-construction	0
Epistemic detachment from distinctions and debates: an investigation ofyimingin the ‘qiwulun’ of theZhuangzi	0
Vasubandhu, reactive attitudes, and attentional freedom	0
Reiteration and automaton: A posthumanist reading of repetition in Zhuangzi and Jacques Lacan	0
Path-bound normativity and a Confucian case of historical holism	0
The idea of shan 善 (goodness): A neglected philosophical relation between Guodian’s ‘Wu xing’ and Xunzi	0
Yangsheng 養生 as ‘making a living’ in the Zhuangzi	0
The problem of evil in the Neo-Confucian context: Wang Yangming’s view on evil	0
Did Confucius advise Zai Wo to do what he believed to be morally wrong? Interpreting Analects 17.21	0
Thought-suppression in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra: against Ian Whicher’s interpretation of Patañjali’s yoga	0
The internal and external dimensions of Liu Zongzhou’s self-cultivation theory	0
‘Betweenness’ and ‘twofoldness’: A cross-cultural interpretation of the aesthetic appreciation of paintings	0
Intention, ethics, and convention in Daoism: Guo Xiang on ziran (self-so) and wuwei (non-action)	0
‘Angry fish’ and ‘dying fish’ matter in the Zhuangzi Too: Political analogies in the ‘happy fish’ dialogue	0
The spaciousness of self-awareness: A phenomenological account of self-reflexivity in Patañjali´s Yoga philosophy	0
On Garfield and Priest’s interpretation of the use of the catuskoti in Mūlamadhyamakakārikā	0
A contextual review of the Nei 內 (internality) / Wai 外 (externality) debate in the Mencius	0
The evolution of Xuantong in early Daoist philosophy	0
The inversion of values and the renunciation of desire and love: an investigation through Max Scheler and Wang Yangming	0
Chinese Islam’s understanding of Zhongxiao 忠孝: Jin Tian-zhu’s 金天柱 Qing Zhen Shi Yi 清眞釋疑	0
An ancient Chinese interpretation of distributed leadership	0
The evolution of Li Dazhao’s Chinese nationalism	0
Existence as a first-order predicate: Themes from Mirdamad	0
Flowers in a mirror: Critique of ‘Confucianization of law’	0
Unity and multiplicity of Ibn ‘Arabī’s philosophy in Indonesian Sufism	0
The unity of identity and difference as the absoluteness of all relativity: Hui Shi and the longing for a different logic	0
On being “without-desire” in Lao-Zhuang Daoism	0
Nishida Kitarō and Muhammad ‘Abduh on God and reason: Towards a theology of place	0
Miki Kiyoshi’s Philosophy of History and the historical role of myth	0
Qian Mu reads Zhuangzi: Regarding ‘there has not yet begun to be a “there has not yet begun to be nothing”’	0
Relational autonomy: where Confucius and Mencius stand on freedom	0
Zhuangzi’s ethical nihilism	0
A Mou Zongsan’s criticism of Xunzi: ‘Morality is external’	0
Historical materialism in medieval China: The cases of Liu Zongyuan (773-819) and Li Gou (1009-1059)	0
Is there a universal priority in cases of value conflicts? —Reverse engineeringQuan權	0
Contrasting tools of thought: Chinese correlations and Western analogies	0
Am I the only mind that exists?	0
A metaphysical interpretation of ‘Heaven’ and the ‘Mandate of Heaven’ as practice: Takada Shinji’s argument about the ‘Mandate of Heaven’	0