1. Cua, Antonio. 1985. Ethical Argumentation: A Study of Hsün Tzu’s Moral Epistemology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2. Fraser, Chris. 2011. “Knowledge and Error in Early Chinese Thought.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10(2): 127–48. (Includes a detailed discussion of Xunzi’s epistemology and theory of perception.)
3. Fraser, Chris. 2007. “Language and Ontology in Early Chinese Thought.” Philosophy East & West 57(4): 420–56.
4. Fraser, Chris. 2005a. “Mohist Canons.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta. .
5. Fraser, Chris. 2005b. “School of Names.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta. . (Explains the background to many of the paradoxical sayings that Xunzi criticizes.)