Wing-tsit Chan

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Wing-tsit Chan ( Chinese  陳榮捷 , Pinyin Chén Róngjié ; born August 18, 1901 in Kaiping , China ; died August 12, 1994 in Pittsburgh , USA ) was a Chinese-American sinologist and religious philosopher . He has taught at Dartmouth College and Chatham University . He is the author of a practical collection of sources on Chinese philosophy ( A source book in Chinese philosophy ) in English translation, and together with Wm. Theodore de Bary (1919–2017) and Burton Watson (1925–2017) the Sources of Chinese Tradition . With numerous other translations and other books, he was one of the most productive mediators of the philosophy and religions of China in the English-speaking world. His works have been included in well-known series such as the Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies and the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works .

Works

  • The essentials of Buddhist philosophy. 1949
  • Religious Trends in Modern China (Columbia University Press, 1953)
  • An Outline and a Bibliography of Chinese Philosophy. 1955
  • From 1600 through the twentieth century. 1960
  • (with Wm. Theodore de Bary and Burton Watson ) Sources of Chinese Tradition (Columbia University Press, 1960)
  • A source book in Chinese philosophy. 1963
  • Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-Ming (Columbia University Press, 1963)
  • Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian anthology compiled by Chu Hsi and Lü Tsu-Ch'ien (Columbia University Press, 1967)
  • Neo-Confucianism, Etc. 1969
  • An outline and an annotated bibliography of Chinese philosophy. 1969
  • The great Asian religions. 1969
  • The path to wisdom: Chinese Philosophy and religion , a chapter in Half the world: The history and culture of China and Japan (Thames and Hudson, London, 1973), edited by Arnold J. Toynbee .
  • (ed., with Charles Moors) The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy (Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. 1976)
  • Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism. 1986
  • Neo-Confucian terms explained. 1986
  • Xin ru xue lun ji. 2004

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ digitized version

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personal data
SURNAME Chan, Wing-tsit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chan, Wing-Tsit; Chan, Wing Tsit; Wing tsit chan; Chen Rongjie; Chen Rong Jie; Chen, Rongjie; Chan, Wing-tsit; Chʹen, Jung-chieh; Chʹen, Yung-chieh; 陈荣捷; 陳, 榮 捷
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American sinologist and religious philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiping , China
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1994
Place of death Pittsburgh , USA