In the original version of this article there was an error in the title and the funding statement was not included. The title of the article should be The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image.

The funding statement and acknowledgements sections shown below has been added to the original article:

This article is part of my research project “Re-thinking the Song Yuan xue'an: The Formation of the Cheng School as a Disciplinary Matrix and Its Development in the Early Twelfth Century”, funded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (General Research Funding, 2020–2022, Project No. 14608519).

I would like to express my gratitude to Professors Charles Hartman, Ari Levine, Ming-kin Chu, Jaeyoon Song, and Zoe Lin for their insightful suggestions on the early draft of this article that has been presented in the 2021 Association for Asian Studies Conference.

The author apologises for these errors.