Eirik Lang Harris is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University, USA. His research focuses on ethics and political philosophy in classical China. He is the author of The Shenzi Fragments: A Philosophical Analysis and Translation (2016) and Meritocracy in Early Chinese Political Thought (2026) as well as co-editor of Adventures in Chinese Realism: Classic Philosophy Applied to Contemporary Issues (2022) and Explaining and Illustrating the Laozi: The Earliest Commentaries on the Daodejing (2026).