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Dialogue Among Civilizations The Chinese American Search for Cultural Identity |
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August 26, 2002 (Monday) |
| Tu Weiming, Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, was born in February 1940 in Kunming, China. After earning his B.A. in Chinese Studies from Tunghai University, Taiwan, he received his M.A. in Regional Studies from Harvard in 1963 and his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages in 1968, also from Harvard. He has taught at the Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley and since 1981 has held the position of Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy at Harvard, where he is a member of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard. In 1999 he was awarded the title of Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies. Active in many public as well as academic efforts, Professor Tu is the chair of the Academia Sinica's advisory committee on the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum regularly held in Davos, Switzerland. He is also a member of the Group of Eminent Persons on the Dialogue among Civilizations convened by the Secretary General of the United Nations, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a board member of the Chinese Heritage Center in Singapore. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lehigh University in 2000. He is the author or editor of 19 books in English, 13 books in Chinese, and well over 100 articles and book chapters. | |
