Song-Ming Confucianism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

This is the Song-Ming Confucianism entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written by Justin Tiwald, a scholar of Chinese philosophy, first published in 2020 and substantively revised in 2025. Its authority comes from the Encyclopedia's editorial model, a named specialist author writing a signed entry that undergoes review and is then kept current through dated revisions, distinguishing it from an anonymous or crowd-edited page, and this atlas confirmed the entry live as of August 2026. Its limit is that a survey entry of this kind necessarily summarizes a broad field of Neo-Confucian thought across the Song and Ming dynasties, so a claim needing deep engagement with one specific thinker within that tradition, Wang Yangming for instance, is better served by a focused monograph.