Paul R. Goldin

• The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics (Routledge, 2024)
• Lu Jia's New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty (Brill, 2020) (with Elisa Levi Sabattini)
• The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them (Princeton, 2020)
• Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History (Routledge, 2018)
• A Concise Companion to Confucius (Wiley, 2017)
• Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei (Springer, 2013)
• Confucianism (California & Acumen, 2011; rpt., Routledge, 2014)
• After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy (Hawaii, 2005)
• The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (Hawaii, 2002)
• Rituals of the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi (Open Court, 1999)

In addition, I edited the new release of R.H. van Gulik's classic study, Sexual Life in Ancient China (Brill, 2003), and co-edited the Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture (Hawaii, 2005), Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China (Brill, 2015), and A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions (Society for the Study of Early China, 2016; revised edition, 2020).

• "A Mind-Body Problem in the Zhuangzi?" (2003)
• "The Theme of the Primacy of the Situation in Classical Chinese Philosophy and Rhetoric" (2005)
• "The Cultural and Religious Background of Sexual Vampirism in Ancient China" (2006)
• "Xunzi and Early Han Philosophy" (2007)
• "The Myth That China Has No Creation Myth" (2008)
• "Appeals to History in Early Chinese Philosophy and Rhetoric" (2008)
• "When zhong 忠 Does Not Mean 'Loyalty'" (2008)
• "The Hermeneutics of Emmentaler" [on the date and composition of Zuozhuan] (2010)
• "Persistent Misconceptions about Chinese 'Legalism'" (as published, 2011)
• "Persistent Misconceptions about Chinese 'Legalism'" (a corrected version, because the editorial staff of JCP butchered my paper)
• "Steppe Nomads as a Philosophical Problem in Classical China" (2011)
• "Han Law and the Regulation of Interpersonal Relations: 'The Confucianization of the Law' Revisited" (2012)
• "Heng xian and the Problem of Studying Looted Artifacts" (2013)
• "The Consciousness of the Dead as a Philosophical Problem in Ancient China" (2015)
• "Representations of Regional Diversity during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" (2015)
• "Women and Moral Dilemmas in Early Chinese Narrative" (2016)
• "The Legacy of Bronzes and Bronze Inscriptions" (from A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions, 2016)
• "Copulating with One's Stepmother--Or Birth Mother?" (2017)
• "Some Shang Antecedents of Later Chinese Ideology and Culture" (2017)
• "Introduction: What Is Early Chinese History?" (Introduction to Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History, 2018)
• "Polygyny and Its Discontents: A Key to Understanding Traditional Chinese Society" (with Debby Chih-yen Huang, 2018)
• "Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional View" (2018)
• "Two Notes on Xie He’s 謝赫 ‘Six Criteria’ (liufa 六法), Aided by Digital Databases" (2018)
• "The Diversity of Perspectives on Language in Daoist Texts and Traditions" (2020)
• "Etymological Notes on Early Chinese Aristocratic Titles" (2021)
• "A Chinese Reading of Epictetus" (2022)
• "Economic Cycles and Price Theory in Early Chinese Texts" (2022)
• "Pre-Qin and Han Philosophical and Historical Prose: Self-Interest, Manipulation, and the Philosophical Marketplace" (2022)
• "Mencius in the Han Dynasty" (2023)
• "The Problem of Looted Artifacts in Chinese Studies: A Rejoinder to Critics" (2023)
• "The Linguistic of Chinese Philosophical Keywords" (2024)

Resources

A Guide to Basic Sinological Research Materials (password protected)