| Confucian democracy: A Deweyan reconstruction S Tan State University of New York Press, 2012 | 403 | 2012 |
| Filial piety in Chinese thought and history AK Chan, S Tan RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 | 147 | 2004 |
| Globalization and citizenship H Schattle Rowman & Littlefield, 2012 | 66 | 2012 |
| Modernizing Confucianism and New Confucianism SH Tan Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 63 | 2008 |
| China's pragmatist experiment in democracy: Hu Shih's pragmatism and Dewey's influence in China SH Tan Metaphilosophy 35 (1‐2), 44-64, 2004 | 63 | 2004 |
| Challenging citizenship: Group membership and cultural identity in a global age S Tan Routledge, 2017 | 49 | 2017 |
| Imagining Confucius: Paradigmatic character and virtue ethics SH Tan Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (3), 409, 2005 | 41 | 2005 |
| Political implications of Confucian familism A Rappa, S Tan Asian Philosophy 13 (2-3), 87-102, 2003 | 39 | 2003 |
| The Dao of politics: Li (rituals/rites) and laws as pragmatic tools of government S Tan Philosophy East and West, 468-491, 2011 | 38 | 2011 |
| Authoritative master Kong (Confucius) in an authoritarian age S Tan Dao 9, 137-149, 2010 | 38 | 2010 |
| Democracy in confucianism S Tan Philosophy Compass 7 (5), 293-303, 2012 | 34 | 2012 |
| Early Confucian Concept of Yi (议)and Deliberative Democracy S Tan Political Theory 42 (1), 82-105, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| Feminist encounters with Confucius M Foust, S Tan Brill, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| Democracy as culture: Deweyan pragmatism in a globalizing world S Tan, J Whalen-Bridge State University of New York Press, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| The pragmatic Confucian approach to tradition in modernizing China SORH TAN History and Theory 51 (4), 23-44, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Why equality and which inequalities? A modern Confucian approach to democracy S Tan Philosophy East and West, 488-514, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Beyond elitism: A community ideal for a modern East Asia S Tan Philosophy East and West 59 (4), 537-553, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| From cannibalism to empowerment: an analects-inspired attempt to balance community and liberty S Tan Philosophy East and West, 52-70, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| Filial daughters-in-law: Questioning Confucian filiality S Tan Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History, 226-240, 2004 | 23 | 2004 |
| The Concept of Yi (义) in the Mencius and Problems of Distributive Justice S Tan Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (3), 489-505, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
