Ronnie Littlejohn (Zhang Renning 张仁宁) is a comparative philosopher whose interest and publications are in areas including the following: moral ethology, comparative moral grammars and ontologies, the philosophy of language and the philosophy and practice of Confucianism and Daoism. He is Director of Asian Studies at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA and Affiliate Faculty in the College of Foreign Languages of Zhengzhou University. For more information, consult his page at Academia.edu https://belmont.academia.edu/RonnieLittlejohn. Among his most recent publications is the reference work, Historical Dictionary of Daoism.