Sungmoon Kim’s major review essay, “Contemporary Confucian Political Theory: Its Origin, Evolution, and Challenges,” has been published in Political Theory; see here. The Abstract follows.
Category Archives: Articles of Interest
New Article: Wang, Fairness in care: liberal resources for a Confucian feminist ethics
A new article that will be of interest to many: Wang, B. P. (2026). Fairness in care: liberal resources for a Confucian feminist ethics. Inquiry, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2026.2673083 (open access).
Two Essays on Ji Kang
Lanevich has recently written two essays that readers may find interesting:
A piece on Ji Kang’s two philosophical essays: “Ji Kang: Two Essays, One Knife”.
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A companion piece on Ji Kang’s death and the philosophical stakes: “Ji Kang: An Ontological Declaration of War”.
New Article: Beaney and Lai, Towards a deep epistemology
The article Towards a deep epistemology: knowing in historical and cross-cultural context by Michael Beaney and Karyn Lai has been published recently as the lead article in the special issue Knowing in Historical and Cross-Cultural Context of British Journal for the History of Philosophy. This article makes the case for a deep epistemology, an epistemology rooted in the epistemic experiences and philosophical debates from across the full range of historical periods and global cultures, with fine-grained sensitivity to the actual linguistic terms and constructions used in expressing them.
To access the article for further reading, please visit this site.
New Article: Tong, Defensible Democratic Meritocracy
Zhichao TONG’s article “Defensible Democratic Meritocracy: A Competition-Based Account” has been published in the British Journal of Political Science; see here. The abstract follows.
New Article: Jin on Xu Fuguan
Jin Yutang (Politics and public Administration, HKU) has published a new article in The History of Political Thought titled “Confucian Virtue Politics in Modern Times: A Reappraisal of Xu Fuguan’s Confucian Democracy.” See here for abstract and other information.
Caro on Modern Confucianism in the PRC
Carlo Caro has published a five-part exploration of Confucianism and the foundations of political legitimacy in The Diplomat.
Bureaucratized Confucianism: How Tradition Became a Tool of Control
Erasing Confucian Cosmology: How Harmony Lost Its Soul
Legal Minimalism – How Sentience Disappeared from Chinese Law
The Elimination of Remonstrance: From Confucian Conscience to Organizational Discipline
Systemic Suppression: The Silent Elimination of Alternative Confucianism
Series link: https://thediplomat.com/tag/simulated-sagehood/
New Article: Brys, “Action-based Benevolence”
The European Journal of Philosophy has just published Waldemar Brys’s essay “Action-Based Benevolence”; see here. This provocative paper is the first essay specifically on Chinese philosophy in the EJP, which now joins the list of “mainstream” journals that have published works of Chinese or comparative philosophy.
If you publish in a journal outside of the specialist journals that we try to routinely track here at Warp, Weft, and Way, by all means let us know and we’ll share the news.
Read on for the Abstract.
New Article: Choo and Tsai, “Debts of Gratitude in Cross‐Cultural Perspective”
Lok Chui Choo and George Tsai’s article, “Debts of Gratitude in Cross‐Cultural Perspective: Confucian and Western Ethics” has been published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. See here; and the abstract follows.
New article: Chan, “Action Just Is Knowledge”
Chan Chi-keung 陳志強’s article “Action Just Is Knowledge,” has been published in Philosophical Explorations and is now available online here: https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2025.2468950. The abstract follows.
