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2. Berthrong, John. 2008. “Re-Investigating the Way: The Architectonics of Zhu Xi’s Mature Discourse.” In Ng On-cho, ed., The Imperative of Understanding: Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Onto-Hermeneutics. New York: Global Scholarly Publications.
3. ———. 2013. “Xunzi and Zhu Xi.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 40.3–4: 400–416. (Astute article that concisely details the major points of intersection unexpectedly shared in common by the two thinkers.)
4. ———. 2015. “Boston Daoxue: The Modern Transposition of Zhu Xi’s Philosophical Vision.” In David Jones and Jinli He, eds., Returning to Zhu Xi: Emerging Patterns within the Supreme Polarity. Albany: State University of New York Press.
5. Cai, Renhou 蔡仁厚. 1988. “Xunzi and Zhu Xi: A Comparison of the Deliberations on Mind-Heart and Human Nature in the Two Schools of the Philosophers Xunzi and Zhu Xi and Their Statuses Within Confucianism 荀子與朱子:荀朱二家性論之比較及其在儒學中的地位.” Goose Lake Studies 鵝湖學誌 1: 33–53. (Makes a compelling case for how these two concepts came to hold the exalted positions in the thought of both Xunzi and Zhu Xi that they did.)