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| Individualism in early China: Human agency and the self in thought and politics EF Brindley University of Hawaii Press, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
| Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c. 400 bce–50 ce EF Brindley Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 92 | 2015 |
| " Why use an ox-cleaver to carve a chicken?" The sociology of the junzi ideal in the Lunyu E Brindley Philosophy East and West, 47-70, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| Music, cosmos, and the development of psychology in early China E Brindley T'oung Pao 92 (1), 1-49, 2006 | 43 | 2006 |
| Barbarians or Not? Ethnicity and Changing Conceptions of the Ancient Yue (Viet) Peoples, ca. 400-50 BC E Brindley Asia Major, 1-32, 2003 | 40 | 2003 |
| A Philosophical Translation of the Heng Xian EF Brindley, PR Goldin, ES Klein Dao 12, 145-151, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| Moral autonomy and individual sources of authority in the analects E Brindley Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (2), 257-273, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Music and “seeking one’s heart-mind” in the “Xing Zi Ming Chu” EF Brindley Dao 5 (2), 247-255, 2006 | 21 | 2006 |
| The Polarization of the Concepts" Si"(Private Interest) and" Gong"(Public Interest) in Early Chinese Thought E Brindley Asia Major, 1-31, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Individualism in classical Chinese thought E Brindley | 17 | 2011 |
| " The Perspicuity of Ghosts and Spirits" and the problem of intellectual affiliations in early China E Brindley Journal of the American Oriental Society 129 (2), 215-236, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| Human agency and the ideal of shang tong (upward conformity) in early Mohist writings E Brindley Journal of Chinese philosophy 34 (3), 409-425, 2007 | 12 | 2007 |
| Representations and Uses of Yue Identity along the Southern Frontier of the Han, ca. 200–111 BCE E Brindley Early China 33 (34), 2010-2011, 2010 | 9 | 2010 |
| The Taiyi shengshui 太一生水 Cosmogony and Its Role in Early Chinese Thought E Brindley Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts, 153-162, 2019 | 7 | 2019 |
| The Cosmos as Creative Mind: Spontaneous Arising, Generating, and Creating in the Heng Xian EF Brindley Dao 12, 189-206, 2013 | 6 | 2013 |
| The concept of “educational transformation” and its relationship to civilizing missions in early China EF Brindley Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 5 (1), 1-21, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| The cosmic power of sound in the late Warring States and Han periods E Brindley Journal of Chinese Religions 35 (1), 1-35, 2007 | 5 | 2007 |
| Cultural identity and the canonization of music in early China E Brindley Monumenta Serica 64 (2), 255-275, 2016 | 4 | 2016 |
| “Sagacity” and the Heaven–Human Relationship in the Wuxing 五行 E Brindley Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts, 187-196, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
