Kai-chiu Ng is a senior lecturer of Department of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main research interest lies in Confucianism, especially Zhu Xi's philosophy. He is the author of Zhu Xi's Theory of Self-Cultivation of Probing Principle (in Chinese).

Yong Huang is a professor of Department of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the editor of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy and The Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy series. Author of three monographs in English and three collections of essays in Chinese, he is also an author of 80+ articles each in Chinese or English. His main areas of research are Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, and ethics..

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