The Handbook of Chinese Philosophy has recently been released online by Oxford University Press, with paper copies set to release in August. The handbook collects new work on important texts and figures in the history of Chinese thought. The chapters cover both well-known texts such as the Analects and the Zhuangzi and many of the lesser-known thinkers in the classical and postclassical Chinese tradition. Most of the chapters focus on thinkers or texts in one of three important historical movements. These include classical (“pre-Qin”) Chinese philosophy, Chinese Buddhism, and the Confucian response to Buddhism (“neo-Confucianism” broadly construed). Each chapter presents cutting-edge work on important topics in the Chinese tradition and yet is written for a general philosophical audience. For more information, please see this site, and the Table of Contents follows.

Part One: The Foundations of Ethics
A Theological Voluntarist Consequentialism in the Mozi, Hui-chieh Loy
The Nature of Moral Norms in Xunzi’s Philosophy, Philip J. Ivanhoe
Qing 情 as the Foundation of Xunzi’s Naturalist Ethics, Chenyang Li
Dai Zhen on the Common Affirmability of Ethical Judgments, Justin Tiwald

Part Two: Ethics and Value
Well-Being in Early Chinese Philosophy, Richard Kim
Human Nature in the Ethics of Mengzi and Xunzi, David B. Wong
A Daoist Critique of Morality, Chris Fraser
Harmonizing Chinese Buddhist Ethics, Nicholaos Jones
Moral Failure, Ethical Roles, and Metaphysics in the Great Learning and the Mean, Bryan W. Van NordenPart Three: Philosophical Psychology
Virtuous Contempt (wù惡) in the Analects, Hagop Sarkissian
Kongzi as Therapeutic Philosopher, Erin M. Cline
Being Spontaneous: Zhuangzi on Mastery, Karyn Lai

Part Four: Politics
Dependence and Autonomy in Early Confucianism, Aaron Stalnaker
The Family–State Analogy in the Mengzi, Loubna El Amine
The Dao of Han Fei, Eirik Lang Harris

Part Five: Metaphysics
When Buddha Nature Was Not Buddha Nature: Fo’xing, Shen, and the Birth of a Universal Mind in Early Medieval China, Tao Jiang
How It All Depends: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Huayan Buddhism, Li Kang
Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucian Metaphysics of Human Nature: Explanatory, Not Foundational, Yong HuangPart Six: Knowledge
Xunzi and the Authority of Tradition, Eric L. Hutton
Laozi and zhu Xi on Knowledge and Virtue, May Sim
Knowing-To in Wang Yangming, Waldemar Brys
Knowledge of Human Nature and Morality in Contemporary Confucianism, David Elstein