Do Wei-ming

Tu Wei-ming or Tu Weiming ( Chinese 杜维明 , Pinyin Dù Wéimíng , born February 6, 1940 in Kunming , Yunnan Province ) is a Chinese philosopher and representative of "New Confucianism" as well as professor and dean at the Institute for Advanced Humanities at the Beijing University . At the same time he works as a Senior Fellow at the Asia Center at Harvard University .

biography

From 1999 to 2010, Tu Wei-ming Harvard-Yenching was Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and Confucianism at the Institute for East Asian Languages and Civilization at Harvard University. He was also director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute (1996-2008) and director of the Institute for Communication and Culture at the East-West Center in Hawaii (1990-1991). Tu Wei-ming has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1988 .

Youth and Education

Tu Wei-ming was born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, in 1940. He received his Bachelor's (1961) in Sinology from Tunghai University , Taiwan , and his Master's (1963) in East Asian Cultural Studies. He received his PhD (1968) from Harvard University in History and East Asian Languages. He then taught at Princeton University (1968–1971), at the University of California, Berkeley (1971–1981) and was from then on a faculty member at Harvard. When Life magazine asked leading intellectuals for their opinion on the "meaning of life" in 1988, Tu Wei-ming responded with one of the most accessible introductions to the thoughts of "New Confucianism".

Tu has been visiting professor at Peking University, Taiwan University, Hong Kong Chinese University and Paris University . He has received honorary professorships from Zhejiang University, Renmin University, Zhongshan University, Cheung Kong School of Economics, and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He also received honorary doctorates from Lehigh University and Michigan State University, and Shangdong University. In 2001 Tu was appointed by Kofi Annan to work for the United Nations on dialogue between cultures. Since 2004 he has given several speeches to UNESCO , mainly on intercultural dialogue , but also on ecological issues and sustainable development. He was also one of eight Confucian specialists commissioned by the Singapore government to participate in educational reform and to develop the Confucian ethics curriculum .

Personal

Tu Wei-ming has two sons and two daughters: Eugene, Yalun, Marianna and Rosa. Otherwise Tu also appeared in Bill Moyer's show "A world of Ideas" on the subject of "A confucian life in America".

Publications

Tu has written more than 30 books in Chinese and English. This includes:

Do, Weiming. (1976). Neo-Confucian thought in action: Wang Yang-Ming's youth . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Do, Weiming. (1978). Humanity and self-cultivation: Essays in Confucian thought . Boston, MA: Asian Humanities Press.
Do, Weiming. (1984). Confucian ethics today: The Singapore challenge . Singapore: Federal Publications.
Do, Weiming. (1985). Confucian thought: Selfhood as creative transformation . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Do, Weiming. (1989). Centrality and commonality: An essay on Confucian religiousness . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Do, Weiming. (1989). Confucianism in historical perspective . Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies.
Do, Weiming. (1993). Way, learning, and politics: Essays on the Confucian intellectual . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Do, Weiming. (Ed.). (1994). China in transformation . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Do, Weiming. (Ed.). (1994). The living tree: The changing meaning of being Chinese today . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Do, Weiming. (Ed.). (1996). Confucian traditions in East Asian modernity . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Tu, Weiming, & Tucker, Mary Evelyn. (Eds.). (2003/2004). Confucian spirituality (Vols. 1-2). New York: Crossroad.
De Barry, William Theodore, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (1998). Confucianism and human rights . New York: Columbia University Press.
Liu, James TC, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (1970). Traditional China . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Yao, Xinzhong, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (2010). Confucian studies (Vols. 1-4). London: Routledge.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Do, Wei-ming
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	杜维明 (Chinese); Dù Wéimíng (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kunming

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[2] ttp://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/images/Tu_Weiming_Paper_1.pdf

[3] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiMVDvAqgs

[4] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqi31pBL2ew (accessed April 19, 2015)