1. For references to ancient texts and Classics if no mention is done to specific editions see Chinese Text Project (on-line http://ctext.org/). The works collected in Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Treasuries SKQS) are available in their electronic edition at the Wenyuange Siku Quanshu文淵閣四庫全書電子版. Translations from and references to Lunyu (Analects) and Mengzi (Mencius) are all based on J. Legge (1985) with some minor changes.
2. Huang Zongxi 黃宗羲 Mingru Xue’an 明儒學案. [Treatise on the Ming scholars] repr. Taibei: Shijie shuju 1984; and SKQS Shibu 史部 Zhuanjilei 傳記類 Zonglu zhi Shu 總錄之屬
3. Li, Zhi. Chutan Ji 初潭集 [First Collection by the Pond]. 1588. Reprint. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974.
4. Li, Zhi. Daodejing jie 道德經解 [Commentary on Daodejing, also Laozi jie 老子解 or Jielao 解老]. In Li Zhi Quanji Zhu 李贽全集注 [Complete and Annotated Works by Li Zhi], vol. 14, 5–104. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2010.
5. Li, Zhi. Fenshu 焚書, Xufenshu 續焚書 [A Book to Burn, and Sequel]. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1975.