“Virtue Ethics, the Analects, and the Problem of Commensurability,” (PDF) Journal of Religious Ethics 29.1 (Summer 2001): 97-125. *

Reprinted in Confucian Studies: Critical Concepts, ed. Yao Xinzhong and Tu Weiming, Routledge 2013.

Annotated translation of and introduction to selections from the Analects (with critical bibliography), in Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, ed. P.J. Ivanhoe and Bryan Van Norden, Seven Bridges Press (August 2000): 1-53.

“Effortless Action: the Chinese Spiritual Ideal of Wu-wei,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68.2 (June 2000): 293-328. *

Article version of my dissertation project.

“The Conception of Ming [“Fate”] in Early Chinese Thought,” Philosophy East and West 46.4 (1996): 567-581. *