1. Adler, Joseph A. 2014. Reconstructing the Confucian Dao: Zhu Xi’s Appropriation of Zhou Dunyi. Albany: State University of New York Press. (A comprehensive survey of Zhu Xi’s role as interpreter.)
2. Angle, Stephen C. 2015. “Zhu Xi’s Virtue Ethics and the Grotian Challenge.” In David Jones and Jinli He, eds., Returning to Zhu Xi: Emerging Patterns Within the Supreme Polarity, 253–272. New York: SUNY. (An insightful article on Zhu Xi’s ethics and its relation to metaphysics.)
3. Baba, Eiho. 2015. “Li as Emergent Patterns of Qi: A Nonreductive Interpretations.” David Jones and Jinli He, eds., In Returning to Zhu Xi: Emerging Patterns Within the Supreme Polarity, 197–227. New York: SUNY. (An insightful perspective on li–qi relatedness.)
4. Berthrong, John. 1998. Transformations of the Confucian Way. New York: Perseus Books
5. ———. 2005. “Inventing Zhu XI: Process of principle.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32.2: 257–279. (A perceptive explication of Zhu Xi’s philosophy of Process.)