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Tu Weiming

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Tu Weiming
Born(1940-02-06)February 6, 1940(age 84)
Kunming,Yunnan,China
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma mater
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-disciplineEthics
School or traditionNew Confucianism[2](Boston Confucianism)[3]
Institutions
Notable works
  • Confucian Thought(1985)
  • The Global Significance of Concrete Humanity(2010)
Notable ideas
  • Cultural China
  • dialogical civilization
  • spiritual humanism
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Tu Weiming[a](born 1940) is a Chinese-born American philosopher. He is Chair Professor of Humanities and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies atPeking University.He is also Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of Asia Center atHarvard University.[4]

Biography[edit]

Tu was born on February 6, 1940,[5]inKunming,YunnanProvince,Mainland China,and grew up inTaiwan.[6]He obtained hisBachelor of Artsdegree (1961) in Chinese studies fromTunghai Universityand learned from suchConfucianscholars asMou Zongsan,Tang Junyi,andXu Fuguan.[6]He earned hisMaster of Artsdegree (1963) in regional studies (East Asia) andDoctor of Philosophydegree (1968) in history and East Asian languages fromHarvard University,where he studied with professors includingBenjamin I. Schwartz,Talcott Parsons,andRobert Neelly Bellah.[7]He is a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences(1988),[8]a member ofAcademia Sinica(2018),[9]an executive member of theFederation of International Philosophical Societies,and a tutelary member of theInternational Institute of Philosophy.[10]

Tu was Harvard–Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studiesin the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations[citation needed]at Harvard University(1981–2010)[citation needed]and Director of theHarvard–Yenching Institute[11](1996–2008). He also held faculty positions atPrinceton University(1968–1971) and theUniversity of California at Berkeley(1971–1981)[citation needed]and was Director of the Institute of Culture and Communication at theEast–West Centerin Hawaii (1990–1991).[12]

Tu was a visiting professor atBeijing Normal University,theChinese University of Hong Kong,National Taiwan University,Peking University, and theUniversity of Paris.He currently holds honorary professorships from theCheung Kong Graduate School of Business,Jinan University,Renmin University,theShanghai Academy of Social Sciences,Sun Yat-sen University,Soochow University,Zhejiang University,andZhongshan University.He is also a member of International Advisory Council inUniversiti Tunku Abdul Rahman.[13]

Tu has been awarded honorary degrees byKing's College London,Lehigh University,Lingnan Universityin Hong Kong,Grand Valley State University,Shandong University,Soka Universityin Japan, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and theUniversity of Macau.

In 1988, Tu was one of many public intellectuals who were asked byLifemagazine to give their impressions on "The Meaning of Life".[14]In 1994, he was featured inA World of Ideas with Bill Moyer: A Confucian Life in America(Films for the Humanities and Sciences). In 2001, he was appointed byKofi Annanas a member of theUnited Nations' "Group of Eminent Persons" to facilitate theDialogue Among Civilizations.[15][page range too broad]In 2004, he gave a presentation on inter-civilizational dialogue to the executive board ofUNESCO.He was also one of the eight Confucian intellectuals who were invited by theSingaporeangovernment to develop the "Confucian Ethics" school curriculum.[16]

Tu has been the recipient of numerous awards including the grand prize ofInternational Toegye Society(2001), the secondThomas BerryAward for Ecology and Religion (2002), the Lifelong Achievement Award by theAmerican Humanist Society(2007), the first Confucius Cultural Award by Qufu (2009), the first Brilliance of China Award byChina Central TelevisionBeijing (2013), and theGlobal Thinkers ForumAward for Excellence in Cultural Understanding (2013).

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Tu, Weiming. (1976).Neo-Confucian thought in action: Wang Yang-Ming's youth.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1978).Humanity and self-cultivation: Essays in Confucian thought.Boston, MA: Asian Humanities Press.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1984).Confucian ethics today: The Singapore challenge.Singapore: Federal Publications.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1985).Confucian thought: Selfhood as creative transformation.Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1989).Centrality and commonality: An essay on Confucian religiousness.Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1989).Confucianism in historical perspective.Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1993).Way, learning, and politics: Essays on the Confucian intellectual.Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Tu, Weiming. (2010).The global significance of concrete humanity: Essays on the Confucian discourse in cultural China.New Delhi, India: Center for Studies in Civilizations and Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers.
  • Tu, Weiming, & Ikeda, Daisaku. (2011).New horizons in Eastern humanism: Buddhism, Confucianism and the quest for global peace.London: I. B. Tauris.
  • Murata, Sachiko, Chittick, William C., & Tu, Weiming. (2009).The sage learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic thought in Confucian terms.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press.

Edited books[edit]

  • Tu, Weiming. (Ed.). (1991).The triadic chord: Confucian ethics, industrial East Asia, and Max Weber.Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies.
  • Tu, Weiming. (Ed.). (1994).China in transformation.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Tu, Weiming. (Ed.). (1994).The living tree: The changing meaning of being Chinese today.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Tu, Weiming. (Ed.). (1996).Confucian traditions in East Asian modernity.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Tu, Weiming, Hejtmanek, Milan, & Wachman, A. (Eds.). (1992).The Confucian world observed: A contemporary discussion of Confucian humanism in East Asia.Honolulu, HI: East–West Center and University of Hawaii Press.
  • Tu, Weiming, & Tucker, Mary Evelyn. (Eds.). (2003/2004).Confucian spirituality(Vols. 1–2). New York, NY: Crossroad.
  • De Barry, William Theodore, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (1998).Confucianism and human rights.New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
  • Liu, James T. C., & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (1970).Traditional China.Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Yao, Xinzhong, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (2010).Confucian studies(Vols. 1–4). London: Routledge.
  • Zhang, Everett, Kleinman, Arthur, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (2011).Governance of life in Chinese moral experience: The quest for an adequate life.London: Routledge.

Articles[edit]

  • Tu, Weiming. (1991). A Confucian perspective on global consciousness and local awareness.International House of Japan Bulletin,11(1), 1–5.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1995). The mirror of modernity and spiritual resources for the global community.Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics,34(1), 79–91.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1998). Mustering the conceptual resources to grasp a world in flux. In Julia A. Kushigian (Ed.),International studies in the next millennium: Meeting the challenge of globalization(pp. 3–15). Westport, CT: Praeger.
  • Tu, Weiming. (1999). A Confucian perspective on the core values of the global community.Review of Korean Studies,2,55–70.
  • Tu, Weiming. (2002). Beyond the Enlightenment mentality. In Hwa Yol Jung (Ed.),Comparative political culture in the age of globalization: An introductory anthology(pp. 251–266). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Tu, Weiming. (2008). Mutual learning as an agenda for social development. In Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, & Jing Yin (Eds.),The global intercultural communication reader(pp. 329–333). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Tu, Weiming. (2008). Rooted in humanity, extended to heaven: The "anthropocosmic" vision in Confucian thought.Harvard Divinity Bulletin,36(2), 58–68.
  • Tu, Weiming. (2009). Confucian humanism as a spiritual resource for global ethics.Peace and Conflict Studies,16(1), 1–8.
  • Tu, Weiming. (2012). A spiritual turn in philosophy: Rethinking the global significance of Confucian humanism.Journal of Philosophical Research,37,389–401.
  • Tu, Weiming. (2014). The context of dialogue: Globalization and diversity. In Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, & Jing Yin (Eds.),The global intercultural communication reader(2nd ed., pp. 496–514). New York, NY: Routledge.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^Simplified Chinese:Đỗ duy minh;traditional Chinese:Đỗ duy minh;pinyin:Dù Wéimíng.

References[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^Hung n.d.
  2. ^Cao 2013,p. 201.
  3. ^Ros 2017,p. 38.
  4. ^Dallmayr, Kayapınar & Yaylacı 2014,p. 252.
  5. ^Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via correspondingWorldCatIdentitieslinked authority file (LAF).
  6. ^abTu 2004,p. 36.
  7. ^Tu 2004,p. 38.
  8. ^"Weiming Tu".American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Retrieved11 April2021.
  9. ^"Weiming Tu".Academia Sinica.Retrieved11 April2021.
  10. ^Grinin, Ilyin & Korotayev 2014,p. 364.
  11. ^Hutanuwatr & Manivannan 2005,p. 137.
  12. ^"Harvard Scholar Named New ICC Director".Centerviews.Vol. 8, no. 2. Honolulu, Hawaii: East–West Center. March–April 1990. p. 2.hdl:10125/17407.ISSN0746-1402.
  13. ^"UTAR International Advisory Council".Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahamn (UTAR).20 December 2020.
  14. ^"The Meaning of Life".Life.December 1988.RetrievedNovember 6,2018.
  15. ^Picco 2001,pp. 49–96.
  16. ^Tu 1984.

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External links[edit]

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