Wang Bi’s 王弼 reconstruction of Laozi’s 老子 Daodejing 道德經, Cheng Chung-ying’s 成中英 ontocosmology and Chinese philosophy, Hwa Yol Jung’s Daoist phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, Heidegger’s engagement with Chinese and Japanese philosophy, Motoori Norinaga’s 本居宣長 understanding of Chushingura 忠臣藏 (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)