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Encyclopedia > Tu Wei Ming

Tu Wei-ming (杜維明 Pinyin: Dù Wéimíng) is an ethicist and a Boston Confucian. He assumed his tenure as the Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute in January 1996.


Born in Kunming, Mainland China, Tu received his B.A. at Tunghai University, Taiwan, and M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. Tu taught Chinese intellectual history at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, and since 1981, Chinese history and Chinese philosophy at Harvard University. Professor Tu is renowned for fostering discussion among his students, from freshman undergraduates taking his introductory course on Confucian Moral Reasoning to graduate students taking advanced seminars.


Tu wrote about two dozen books in Chinese and English, including:

  • Neo Confucian Thought: Wang Yang-ming's Youth
  • Centrality and Communality, Humanity and Self-cultivation
  • Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation
  • Wang, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual

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Tu Wei-Ming Discusses Confucius (1001 words)
Tu, noting that his address was the first in this year's Bradley series, a program devoted to the critique of important texts of political and social thought, to focus on "a work created outside the Atlantic world." Mr.
Tu, said, are not considered one of the five great ancient Chinese classics, which Confucius himself studied and transmitted.
Tu, the Analects do present serious philosophical thought, such as the idea that human beings, through endless self-transformation and spiritual growth, "become the humble servant, partner and co-creator of heaven." Then there is the dialectic of "minimum requirement vs.
Tu Wei ming - definition of Tu Wei ming in Encyclopedia (158 words)
Tu Wei-ming (杜維明 Pinyin: Dù Wéimíng) is an ethicist and a Boston Confucian.
Born in Kunming, Mainland China, Tu received his B.A. at Tunghai University, Taiwan, and M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University.
Tu taught Chinese intellectual history at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, and since 1981, Chinese history and Chinese philosophy at Harvard University.
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