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Ming and Acceptance

Anger / Acceptance / Detachment
Kwong-loi Shun
Yang Xiao & Kim Chong Chong, eds. Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius (Springer Nature, 2023): 379-398

Qing in Confucian Thought

Zhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
Journal of Chinese Philosophy 49:3 (2022): 267-280

The Primacy of Practice and the Centrality of Outlook

Confucian Moral PsychologyMethodology
Kwong-loi Shun
Panayiota Vassilopoulou & Daniel Whistler (eds.) Thought: A Philosophical History, Routledge 2021:21-35

Ethical Practitioners and Intellectual Commentators - Response to Commentators

Anger / Acceptance / DetachmentConfucian Moral PsychologyMethodology
Kwong-loi Shun
Australasian Philosophical Review, 5:4 (2021) 418-430

Dimensions of Humility in Early Confucian Thought

Confucian Moral Psychology
Kwong-loi Shun
Journal of Chinese Philosophy 48 (2021): 13-27

Anger, Compassion, and the Distinction Between First and Third Person

Anger / Acceptance / DetachmentConfucian Moral Psychology
Kwong-loi Shun
Australasian Philosophical Review, 5:4 (2021): 327-343

Zhu Xi and the Idea of One Body

Confucian Moral PsychologyZhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
Ng, Kai-chiu and Huang, Yong (eds.) Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Zhu Xi (Springer, 2020): 389-444

On the Idea of 'No Self'

Confucian Moral Psychology
Kwong-loi Shun
Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 92 (Nov 2018), 78-107

Le in the Analects

Anger / Acceptance / Detachment
Kwong-loi Shun
Goldin, Paul R. ed. A Concise Companion to Confucius (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), 133-147

Studying Confucian Thought from the Inside Out

Methodology
Kwong-loi Shun
Dao 15:4 (Dec 2016), 511-532

Methodological Reflections on the Study of Chinese Thought

Methodology
Kwong-loi Shun
Tan, Sor-hoon, ed. Bloomsbury Research Handbook on Methodology in Chinese Philosophy (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016), 57-74

Confucian Learning and Liberal Education

Other Papers
Kwong-loi Shun
Journal of East-West Thought, 6:2 (June 2016), 5-21

On Anger – An Essay in Confucian Moral Psychology

Anger / Acceptance / Detachment
Kwong-loi Shun
David Jones & He Jinli, eds., Rethinking Zhu Xi: Emerging Patterns within the Supreme Polarity (State University of New York Press, 2015)

Nivison and the Philosophical Study of Confucian Thought

Methodology
Kwong-loi Shun
Early China 38 (2015), 41-53

Ethical Self-Commitment and Ethical Self-Indulgence

Anger / Acceptance / Detachment
Kwong-loi Shun
Brian Bruya, ed., Philosophical Challenge from China, (MIT Press, 2015)

Resentment and Forgiveness in Confucian Thought

Anger / Acceptance / Detachment
Kwong-loi Shun
Journal of East-West Thought 4:4 (December 2014)

On Reflective Equanimity: A Confucian Perspective

Anger / Acceptance / Detachment
Kwong-loi Shun
Li Chenyang & Ni Peimin, eds., Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character: Engaging Joel J. Kupperman (State University of New York Press, 2014)

Dai Zhen on Nature (Xing) and Pattern (Li)

Zhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41:1-2 (March-June 2014)

Three Kinds of Confucian Thought: Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, and Dai Zhen

Zhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
Zhong Caijun 鐘彩鈞 ed., Confucianism in East Asian Perspectives: On Its Traditions (東亞視 域中的儒學: 傳統的詮釋) (Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2013)

On Jing 敬: Thinking Through Tang Junyi on Chinese Culture in Diaspora

Confucian Moral PsychologyMethodology
Kwong-loi Shun
Chinese Studies (漢學研究) 31:2 (June 2013), 35-61

Early Confucian Moral Psychology

Confucian Moral Psychology
Kwong-loi Shun
Vincent Shen, ed., Dao Companion to Classical Confucian Philosophy (Springer, 2013)

Confucian Ethics

Other Papers
Kwong-loi Shun
International Encyclopedia of Ethics (John Wiley & Sons, 2013)

The Philosophical Study of Chinese Thought

Methodology
Kwong-loi Shun
Journal of East-West Thought, 1:2 (March 2012), 25-37

Wang Yangming on Self-Cultivation in Daxue

Zhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
Journal of Chinese Philosophy vol. 38, issue supplement s1 (December 2011)

Zhu Xi’s Moral Psychology

Confucian Moral PsychologyZhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
John Makeham, ed., Dao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy (Springer, 2010)

Table of Contents for Zhu Xi and Later Confucian Thought (tentative title)

Other Papers
Kwong-loi Shun
Manuscript completed in 2010, currently under revision

Purity, Moral Trials, and Equanimity

Anger / Acceptance / Detachment
Kwong-loi Shun
Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series, vol. 40, no. 2 (June 2010)

Studying Confucian and Comparative Ethics: Methodological Reflections

Methodology
Kwong-loi Shun
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 36:3 (September 2009), 455-478

Zhu Xi and the Lunyu

Zhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
David Jones, ed., Contemporary Encounters with Confucius (Open Court, 2008)

Wholeness in Confucian Thought: Zhu Xi on Cheng, Zhong, Xin, and Jing

Zhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
On-cho Ng, ed., The Imperative of Understanding: Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Onto-Hermeneutics (New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2008)

Purity in Confucian Thought: Zhu Xi on Xu, Jing, and Wu

Zhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
Kim Chong Chong and Yuli Liu, eds., Conceptions of Virtue: East and West (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2006)

Zhu Xi on Gong and Si

Zhu Xi / Wang Yangming / Dai Zhen
Kwong-loi Shun
Dao, Vol. V (2005)