This bibliography surveys the literature on the Xunzi and classical Chinese philosophy. While it is not exhaustive, it will provide a comprehensive list of articles on Xun Kuang, his thought, the Xunzi, and a general introduction to issues which Xun Kuang discusses.

NOTE: Because of differences in systems Romanization and style of names, Xun Kuang is also called as Xun Qing and Xunzi in the pinyin system and as Hsün K'uang, Hsün Ch'ing, Hsün Tzu, and Hsün-tzu in the Wade-Giles system. An occasional will use other systems of Romanization. Articles in German and French use national systems of Romanization.

Abbreviations: PEW Philosophy East and West; TP T'oung Pao; BMFEA Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm)

Ames, Roger. The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thought. Hawaii, 1983.

Chan, Wing-tsit. "The Evolution of the Concept of Jen." PEW 4 (1954), 295-320.

___. The Way of Lao Tzu. Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.

Cheng Shung-ying. "On yi as a Universal Principle of Specific Application in Confucian Morality." PEW 22 (1972), 269-280.

Creel, H. G. "Confucius and Hsüntzu," JAOS 51 (1931), 23-32.

___. Confucius and the Chinese Way. New York, 1960.

___. The Origins of Statecraft in China. Vol. 1: The Western Zhou Empire. Chicago, 1970.

___. Shen Puhai, A Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B.C. Chicago, 1974.

___. What is Taoism? Chicago, 1970.

Creel, H. G., T. C. Chang, and R. C. Rudolph. Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method. Vol. 2. Chicago, 1939.

Cua, Antonio S. "The Conceptual Aspect of Hsün Tzu 's Philosophy of Human Nature." PEW 27 (1977), 373-389.

___. "Competence, Concern, and the Rule of the Paradigmatic Individual (chün-tzu) in Moral Education." PEW 42 (1992), 49-68.

___. "Confucian Vision and the Human Community." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 11 (1984), 227-38.

___. "Dimensions of Li (Propriety): Reflections on Hsüntzu's Ethics." PEW 29 (1979), 373-94.

___. Ethical Argumentation: A Study in Hsün Tzu's Moral Epistemology. Hawaii, 1985.

___. "Ethical Uses of History in early Confucianism: The Case of Hsün Tzu." PEW 35 (1985), 133-56.

___. "Hsün Tzu and the Unity of Virtues." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 14 (1987), 381-400.

___. "Hsün Tzu's Theory of Argumentation." Review of Metaphysics 36 (1983), 867-894.

___. "The Quasi-Empirical Aspect of Hsün-tzu's Philosophy of Human Nature." PEW 28 (1978), 3-19.

Dubs, Homer H. "Mencius and Sundz [Xunzi] on Human Nature." PEW 6 (1956), 213-22.

___. "The Political Career of Confucius." Journal of the American Oriental Society 66 (1946), 272-76.

___. The Works of Hsüntse. Taibei, 1966.

Duyvendak, J. J. L. The Book of Lord Shang. Chicago, 1963.

_____. "The Chronology of Hsüntzu." TP 26 (1929), 73-95.

_____. "Hsüntzu on the Rectification of Names." TP 23 (1924), 221-54.

_____. "Notes on Dubs' Translation of Hsüntzu." TP 29 (1932), 1-42.

Eberhard, Wolfram. "Beiträge zur Kosmologischen Spekulation Chinas in der Han Zeit." Baessler Archiv 16 (1933), 1-100.

Eno, Robert. The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery. SUNY, 1990.

Fehl, Noah Edward. Li: Rites and Propriety in Literature and Life-A Perspective for a Cultural History of Ancient China. Hong Kong, 1971.

Fingerette, Herbert. "The Problem of Self in the Analects." PEW 19 (1979), 129-40.

Forke, A. The World Conception of the Chinese. Probsthain, 1925.

Giles, L. Sun Tzu on the Art of War. Taibei reprint.

Graham, A.C. "The Background of the Mencian theory of Human Nature." Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 6 (1967), 215-74.

___. "'Being' in Western Philosophy Compared with shih/fei and yu/wu in Chinese Philosophy." Asia Major, N.S. 7 (1959), 79-112.

___. The Book of Liehtzu. London: Murray, 1960.

___. Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters. London: Allen and Unwin, 1981.

___. "The Composition of the Gongsuen Long tzyy." Asia Major, N.S. 5 (1957), 147-83.

___. "The Concepts of Necessity and 'a priori' in later Mohist Disputation." Asia Major, N.S. 19 (1972), 163-90.

___. "The Date and Composition of Liehtzyy." Asia Major, N.S. 8 (1961), 139-98.

___. "The Dialogue between Yang Ju and Chyntzyy." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 22 (1959), 191-299.

___. Disputers of the Tao. LaSalle: Open Court, 1989.

___. Divisions in Early Mohism Reflected in the Core Chapters of Mo-tzu. Singapore, 1985.

___. "The 'Hard and White' Disputations of the Chinese Sophists". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 30 (1967), 358-68.

___. "Kung-sun Lung's Essay on Meaning and Things." Journal of Oriental Studies, 2 (1955), 282-301.

___. Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science. London: SOAS, 1978.

___. "Later Mohist Treatises on Ethics and Logic Reconstructed from the Tach'u Chapter of Motzu." Asia Major, N.S. 17 (1972), 137-89.

___. "The Logic of the Mohist Hsiao-ch'h." TP 51 (1964), 1-54.

___. Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature. Singapore, 1986.

___. "Two Dialogues in the Kungsun Lung tzu." Asia Major, N.S. 11 (1965), 128-52.

___. Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking. Singapore, 1986.

Griffith, S. B. Sun Tzu: The Art of War. Oxford, 1963.

Hall, David L. and Ames, Roger T. Thinking through Confucius. SUNY, 1987.

Haloun, Gustav. "Legalist Fragments: Part 1: Kuantsï 55 and Related Texts." Asia Major, N.S. 2 (1951), 85-120.

_____. "Das Titsïtsï, Frühkonfuzianische Fragmente II." Asia Major 9 (1933), 467-502.

Hansen, Chad. "Freedom and Moral Responsibility in Confucian Ethics." PEW 22 (1972), 169-186.

Hsieh, Shanyuan. "Hsüntzu's Political Philosophy." PEW 29 (1979), 69-90.

Hwang, Philip Ho. "What is Mencius' Theory of Human Nature?" PEW 29 (1979), 201-209.

Ivanhoe, Philip J. "A Happy Symmetry: Xunzi's Ethical Thought." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 59 (1991), 309-22.

Karlgren, Bernhard. "The Authenticity of Early Chinese Texts." BMFEA 1 (1929), 165-83.

___. "The Book of Documents." BMFEA 22 (1950), 1-81.

___. The Book of Odes. Stockholm: BMFEA, 1950.

___. "Early History of the Chou Li and Tso Chuan Texts." BMFEA 3 (1931), 1-59.

___. "Glosses on the Book of Documents." BMFEA 20 (1948); 21 (1949).

___. "Glosses on the Book of Odes." BMFEA 14 (1942); 16 (1944); 18 (1946).

___. "Glosses on the Li Ki." BMFEA 43 (1971), 1-65.

___. "Glosses on the Tso Chuan." BMFEA 41 (1969), 1-158.

___. Grammata Serica Recensa. Stockholm: BMFEA, 1957.

___. "Legends and Cults in Ancient China." BMFEA 18 (1946), 199-365.

___. "Loan Characters in Pre-Han Chinese." BMFEA 35 (1963), 1-128; 36 (1964), 1-105; 37 (1965), 1-136; 38 (1966), 1-82; 39 (1967), 1-51.

___. "Notes on Laotse." BMFEA 47 (1975), 1-19.

___. On the Authenticity and Nature of the Tso Chuan. Gotebord, 1926.

___. "Some Sacrifices in Chou China." BMFEA 40 (1968), 33-78.

Keightley, David. Sources of Shang History. Berkeley, 1978.

Kensig, Steve. "Ritual versus Law in Hsün Tzu." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 3 (1975), 57-66.

Knoblock, John. "The Chronology of Xunzi's Works." Early China 8 (1982-83), 28-52.

___. Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works. 3 vols. Stanford, 1988-1994.

Köster, Hermann. "Ein chinesischer Beamterspiegel aus den 3 Jahrhundert v. Chr. Hsüntzu, Abschnitt 13." Oriens Extremus 3 (1956), 18-27.

___. Hsüntzu. Kaldenkirchen, 1967.

___. "Nichts ungebührlich." Sinologica 4 (1956), 233-249.

Kramers, R. P. K'ung Tzu Chia Yü: The School Sayings of Confucius. Leiden, 1950.

Kunst, Richard A. "More on Xiu and Wuxing, with an Addendum on the Use of Archaic Reconstructions." Early China 3 (1977), 67-69.

Lau, D. C. Confucius: The Analects. Penguin, 1979.

___. Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching. Penguin, 1963.

___. Mencius. Penguin, 1970.

___. "On the Term ch'ih ying and the Story concerning the so-called 'Tilting Vessel (ch'i ch'i)." In Hong Kong University Fiftieth Anniversary Collection (Hong Kong, 1966), III, 18-33.

___. "Theories of Human Nature in Mencius and Shyuntzyy." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 15 (1953), 541-65.

Legge, James. The Chinese Classics. 5 vols. Hong Kong, reprint.

___. The Li Ki. In Sacred Books of the East, vols. 27-28. Dover reprint.

___. The Texts of Taoism. In Sacred Books of the East, vols. 39-40. Dover reprint. [Contains translations of the Zhuangzi and the Daode jing.]

Lenk, Hans and Paul, Gregor. (Eds.) Epistemological Questions in Ancient Chinese Philosophy. SUNY, 1993.

Liao, W. K. The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu. 2 vols. London, 1959.

Lin Yutang. The Wisdom of Lao Tzu. New York, 1948.

Machle, Edward J. "Hsün Tzu as Religious Philosopher." PEW 26 (1976), 443-61.

Malmquist, G`ran. "Cherng Shianq." BMFEA 45 (1973), 63-91.

___. "A Note on the Cherng shianq Ballad in the Shyun Tzyy." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 36 (1973), 352-58.

Mei, Y.P. The Ethical and Political Works of Motse. London, 1929.

___. "Hsün-tzu on Terminology." PEW 1 (1951), 51-66.

___. "Hsün-tzu's Theory of Education." Qinghua xuebao 2 (1961), 361-79.

___. "Hsün-tzu's Theory of Government." Qinghua xuebao 7 (1970), 36-83.

___. Motze: the Neglected Rival of Confucius. London, 1934.

Munro, Donald J. The Concept of Man in Early China. Stanford, 1969.

Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilization in China. 7 volumes. Cambridge, 1954.

Nivison, David S. "On Translating Mencius." PEW 30 (1980), 93-122.

___. "Xun Zi on 'Human Nature.'" Unpublished paper, ca. 1976.

Pankenir, David. "'The Scholar's Frustration' Reconsidered: Melancholia or Credo?" Journal of the American Oriental Society 110 (1990), 434-59.

Parker, E. H. "Liu Hsiang and Tsien Tahien on Suntsz." New China Review 4 (1922), 443-49.

_____. "The Philosopher Suntsz." New China Review 4 (1922), 360-71.

Peterson, Willard J. "The Grounds of Mencius' Argument." PEW 29 (1979), 307-21.

Riegel, Jeffrey. "Reflections on an Unmoved Mind: An Analysis of Mencius 2A.2." Journal of the American Academy of Religion: Thematic Issue, 47 (1979), 433-57.

Rickett, W. Allyn. Guanzi. 3 vols. Princeton, 1985 .

___. Kuantzu: A Repository of Early Chinese Thought. Hong Kong, 1965.

Rosemont, Henry. "State and Society in the Hsün Tzu: A Philosophical Commentary." Monumenta Serica 29 (1970-71), 38-78.

___. (Ed). Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Studies, Vol. 50 (1984).

___. (Ed.) Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts. LaSalle: Open Court, 1990.

Rubin, Vitaly A. "Wu hsing and Yin-yang." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 19 (1982), 131-55.

Sargent, Galen Eugene. "Le débat entre Mengtseu et Siuntseu sur 'la nature humaine.'" Oriens Extremus 3 (1956), 1-17.

Schuessler, Axel. A Dictionary of Early Zhou Chinese. Hawaii, 1987.

Shih, Vincent Y. C. "Hsüntzu's Positivism." Qinghua xuebao 4 (1963), 152-74.

Van Norden, Bryan W. "Mengzi and Xunzi: Two Views of Human Agency." International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1992), 161-84.

Waley, Arthur. The Analects of Confucius. London: Allen and Unwin, 1938.

Yearley, Lee H. "Hsün Tzu on the Mind: His Attempted Synthesis of Confucianism and Daoism." Journal of Asian Studies 39 (1980), 465-80.

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