Tu Weiming
| Tu Weiming | |
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| Born |
Tu Weiming February 26, 1940 Kunming, China |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | B.A., Tunghai University M.A., Harvard University Ph.D., Harvard University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Notable work | Confucian Thought, The Global Significance of Concrete Humanity |
| Website | http://tuweiming.net/ |
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Notable ideas
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cultural China, dialogical civilization, spiritual humanism |
Tu Weiming (simplified Chinese: 杜维明; traditional Chinese: 杜維明; pinyin: Dù Wéimíng; born February 26, 1940) is an ethicist and a New Confucian. He is Chair Professor of Humanities and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University. He is also Research Professor and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University.
Tu was born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, Mainland China and grew up in Taiwan. He obtained his B.A. (1961) in Chinese Studies from Tunghai University and learned from such prominent Confucian scholars as Mou Zongsan, Tang Junyi, and Xu Fuguan. He earned his M.A. (1963) in Regional Studies (East Asia) and Ph.D. (1968) in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, where he studied with renowned professors including Benjamin I. Schwartz, Talcott Parsons, and Robert Neelly Bellah. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an executive member of the Federation of International Philosophical Societies, and a tutelary member of the International Institute of Philosophy.
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