{{short description|Chinese philosopher}} {{family name hatnote|Tu|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox academic | name = Tu Weiming | image = | alt = | caption = | native_name = {{unbulleted list | {{lang|zh|杜维明}} ([[simplified Chinese characters|simplified Chinese]]) | {{lang|zh|杜維明}} ([[traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]]) | {{lang|zh-Latn-pinyin|Dù Wéimíng}} ([[pinyin]])}} | native_name_lang = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|02|06}} | birth_place = [[Kunming]], [[Yunnan]], China | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | residence = | other_names = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = <!--notable national level awards only--> | website = {{official URL}} | education = {{unbulleted list | [[Tunghai University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])| [[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[PhD]])}} | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = [[New Confucianism]]{{sfn|Cao|2013|p=201}} ([[Boston Confucians|Boston Confucianism]]){{sfn|Ros|2017|p=38}} | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = {{hlist | [[Mou Zongsan]]{{sfn|Hung|n.d.}} | [[Tang Junyi]] | [[Xu Fuguan]]}} | era = | discipline = {{hlist | Philosophy | [[anthropology]]{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}}} | sub_discipline = [[Ethics]] | workplaces = {{unbulleted list | [[Princeton University]] | [[University of California, Berkeley]] | [[Harvard University]] | [[Peking University]]}} | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = | notable_works = {{unbulleted list | ''Confucian Thought'' (1985) | ''The Global Significance of Concrete Humanity'' (2010)}} | notable_ideas = {{hlist | Cultural China | dialogical civilization | spiritual humanism}} | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Tu Weiming'''{{efn|{{lang-zh|first=s|s=杜维明|t=杜維明|p=Dù Wéimíng|scase=yes}}.}} (born 1940) is a Chinese-born American philosopher. He is Chair Professor of Humanities and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at [[Peking University]]. He is also Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at [[Harvard University]].{{sfn|Dallmayr|Kayapınar|Yaylacı|2014|p=252}}
== Biography == Tu was born on February 6, 1940,<ref>{{cite LCAuth |id=n80070554 |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref> in [[Kunming]], [[Yunnan]] Province, [[Mainland China]], and grew up in [[Taiwan]].{{sfn|Tu|2004|p=36}} He obtained his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree (1961) in Chinese studies from [[Tunghai University]] and learned from such [[Confucianism|Confucian]] scholars as [[Mou Zongsan]], [[Tang Junyi]], and [[Xu Fuguan]].{{sfn|Tu|2004|p=36}} He earned his [[Master of Arts]] degree (1963) in Regional Studies-East Asia and [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree (1968) in history and East Asian languages from [[Harvard University]], where he studied with professors including [[Benjamin I. Schwartz]], [[Talcott Parsons]], and [[Robert Neelly Bellah]].{{sfn|Tu|2004|p=38}} He is a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1988),<ref>{{cite news |title=Weiming Tu |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/weiming-tu |access-date=11 April 2021 |agency=American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}</ref> a member of [[Academia Sinica]] (2018),<ref>{{cite news |title=Weiming Tu |url=https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=749 |access-date=11 April 2021 |agency=Academia Sinica}}</ref> an executive member of the [[Federation of International Philosophical Societies]], and a tutelary member of the [[International Institute of Philosophy]].{{sfn|Grinin|Ilyin|Korotayev|2014|p=364}}
Tu was Harvard–Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies {{citation needed span |date=November 2018 |text=in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations}} at Harvard University {{citation needed span |date=November 2018 |text=(1981–2010)}} and Director of the [[Harvard–Yenching Institute]]{{sfn|Hutanuwatr|Manivannan|2005|p=137}} (1996–2008). He also held faculty positions at [[Princeton University]] (1968–1971) and the [[University of California at Berkeley]] (1971–1981){{citation needed|date=November 2018}} and was Director of the Institute of Culture and Communication at the [[East–West Center]] in Hawaii (1990–1991).<ref>{{cite news |date=March–April 1990 |title=Harvard Scholar Named New ICC Director |newspaper=Centerviews |volume=8 |issue=2 |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |publisher=East–West Center |page=2 |hdl=10125/17407 |hdl-access=free |issn=0746-1402}}</ref>
Tu was a visiting professor at [[Beijing Normal University]], the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]], [[National Taiwan University]], Peking University, and the [[University of Paris]]. He currently holds honorary professorships from the [[Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business]], [[Jinan University]], [[Renmin University]], the [[Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences]], [[Sun Yat-sen University]], [[Soochow University (Suzhou)|Soochow University]], and [[Zhejiang University]]. He is also a member of International Advisory Council in [[Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman]].<ref name="UTARInternationalAdvisoryCouncil">{{cite web|title=UTAR International Advisory Council|url=https://utar.edu.my/International-Advisory-Council.php|website=Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahamn (UTAR)|date=20 December 2020}}</ref>
Tu has been awarded honorary degrees by [[King's College London]], [[Lehigh University]], [[Lingnan University (Hong Kong)|Lingnan University]] in Hong Kong, [[Grand Valley State University]], [[Shandong University]], [[Soka University]] in Japan, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and the [[University of Macau]].
In 1988, Tu was one of many public intellectuals who were asked by ''Life'' magazine to give their impressions on "The Meaning of Life".<ref>{{cite magazine |date=December 1988 |title=The Meaning of Life |url=http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-037.html |magazine=Life |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref> In 1994, he was featured in ''A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers: A Confucian Life in America'' (Films for the Humanities and Sciences). In 2001, he was appointed by [[Kofi Annan]] as a member of the [[United Nations]]' "Group of Eminent Persons" to facilitate the [[Dialogue Among Civilizations]].{{sfn|Picco|2001|pp=49–96}}{{page range too broad|date=November 2018}} In 2004, he gave a presentation on inter-civilizational dialogue to the executive board of [[UNESCO]]. He was also one of the eight Confucian intellectuals who were invited by the [[Singapore]]an government to develop the "Confucian Ethics" school curriculum.{{sfn|Tu|1984}}
Tu has been the recipient of numerous awards including the grand prize of [[International Toegye Society]] (2001), the second [[Thomas Berry]] Award for Ecology and Religion (2002), the Lifelong Achievement Award by the [[American Humanist Society]] (2007), the first Confucius Cultural Award by Qufu (2009), the first Brilliance of China Award by [[China Central Television]] Beijing (2013), and the [[Global Thinkers Forum]] Award for Excellence in Cultural Understanding (2013).
== Publications ==
=== Books === * Tu, Weiming. (1976). ''Neo-Confucian thought in action: Wang Yang-Ming's youth''. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. * Tu, Weiming. (1978). ''Humanity and self-cultivation: Essays in Confucian thought''. Boston, MA: Asian Humanities Press. * Tu, Weiming. (1984). ''Confucian ethics today: The Singapore challenge''. Singapore: Federal Publications. * Tu, Weiming. (1985). ''Confucian thought: Selfhood as creative transformation''. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. * Tu, Weiming. (1989). ''Centrality and commonality: An essay on Confucian religiousness''. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. * Tu, Weiming. (1989). ''Confucianism in historical perspective''. Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies. * Tu, Weiming. (1993). ''Way, learning, and politics: Essays on the Confucian intellectual''. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. * Tu, Weiming. (2010). ''The global significance of concrete humanity: Essays on the Confucian discourse in cultural China''. New Delhi, India: Center for Studies in Civilizations and Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. * Tu, Weiming, & Ikeda, Daisaku. (2011). ''New horizons in Eastern humanism: Buddhism, Confucianism and the quest for global peace''. London: I. B. Tauris. * Murata, Sachiko, Chittick, William C., & Tu, Weiming. (2009). ''The sage learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic thought in Confucian terms''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press.
=== Edited books === * Tu, Weiming. (Ed.). (1991). ''The triadic chord: Confucian ethics, industrial East Asia, and Max Weber''. Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies. * Tu, Weiming. (Ed.). (1994). ''China in transformation''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. * Tu, Weiming. (Ed.). (1994). ''The living tree: The changing meaning of being Chinese today''. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. * Tu, Weiming. (Ed.). (1996). ''Confucian traditions in East Asian modernity''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. * Tu, Weiming, Hejtmanek, Milan, & Wachman, A. (Eds.). (1992). ''The Confucian world observed: A contemporary discussion of Confucian humanism in East Asia''. Honolulu, HI: East–West Center and University of Hawaii Press. * Tu, Weiming, & Tucker, Mary Evelyn. (Eds.). (2003/2004). ''Confucian spirituality'' (Vols. 1–2). New York, NY: Crossroad. * De Barry, William Theodore, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (1998). ''Confucianism and human rights''. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. * Liu, James T. C., & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (1970). ''Traditional China''. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. * Yao, Xinzhong, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (2010). ''Confucian studies'' (Vols. 1–4). London: Routledge. * Zhang, Everett, Kleinman, Arthur, & Tu, Weiming. (Eds.). (2011). ''Governance of life in Chinese moral experience: The quest for an adequate life''. London: Routledge.
=== Articles === * Tu, Weiming. (1991). A Confucian perspective on global consciousness and local awareness. ''International House of Japan Bulletin'', ''11''(1), 1–5. * Tu, Weiming. (1995). The mirror of modernity and spiritual resources for the global community. ''Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics'', ''34''(1), 79–91. * Tu, Weiming. (1998). Mustering the conceptual resources to grasp a world in flux. In Julia A. Kushigian (Ed.), ''International studies in the next millennium: Meeting the challenge of globalization'' (pp. 3–15). Westport, CT: Praeger. * Tu, Weiming. (1999). A Confucian perspective on the core values of the global community. ''Review of Korean Studies'', ''2'', 55–70. * Tu, Weiming. (2002). Beyond the Enlightenment mentality. In Hwa Yol Jung (Ed.), ''Comparative political culture in the age of globalization: An introductory anthology'' (pp. 251–266). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. * Tu, Weiming. (2008). Mutual learning as an agenda for social development. In Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, & Jing Yin (Eds.), ''The global intercultural communication reader'' (pp. 329–333). New York, NY: Routledge. * Tu, Weiming. (2008). Rooted in humanity, extended to heaven: The "anthropocosmic" vision in Confucian thought. ''Harvard Divinity Bulletin'', ''36''(2), 58–68. * Tu, Weiming. (2009). Confucian humanism as a spiritual resource for global ethics. ''Peace and Conflict Studies'', ''16''(1), 1–8. * Tu, Weiming. (2012). A spiritual turn in philosophy: Rethinking the global significance of Confucian humanism. ''Journal of Philosophical Research'', ''37'', 389–401. * Tu, Weiming. (2014). The context of dialogue: Globalization and diversity. In Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, & Jing Yin (Eds.), ''The global intercultural communication reader'' (2nd ed., pp. 496–514). New York, NY: Routledge.
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== References == === Footnotes === {{reflist|22em}}
=== Bibliography === {{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}} * {{cite book |author=Cao Shunqing |year=2013 |title=The Variation Theory of Comparative Literature |location=Heidelberg, Germany |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-34277-6 |isbn=978-3-642-34277-6 |ref={{sfnref|Cao|2013}} }} * {{cite book |year=2014 |editor1-last=Dallmayr |editor1-first=Fred |editor1-link=Fred Dallmayr |editor2-last=Kayapınar |editor2-first=M. Akif |editor3-last=Yaylacı |editor3-first=İsmail |title=Civilizations and World Order: Geopolitics and Cultural Difference |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Lexington Books }} * {{cite book |year=2014 |editor1-last=Grinin |editor1-first=Leonid E. |editor1-link=Leonid Grinin |editor2-last=Ilyin |editor2-first=Ilya I. |editor3-last=Korotayev |editor3-first=Andrey V. |editor3-link=Andrey Korotayev |title=Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Aspects and Dimensions of Global Views |location=Volgograd, Russia |publisher=Uchitel Publishing House }} * {{cite book |year=2005 |editor1-last=Hutanuwatr |editor1-first=Pracha |editor2-last=Manivannan |editor2-first=Ramu |title=The Asian Future: Dialogues for Change |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=Zed Books |isbn=978-1-84277-343-7 }} * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Hung |first=Tsz Wan Andrew |title=Tu Weiming (1940–) |url=https://www.iep.utm.edu/tu-weimi/ |encyclopedia=[[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |issn=2161-0002 |access-date=November 6, 2018 }} * {{cite book | first1 = Giandomenico | last1 = Picco | author-link1 = Giandomenico Picco | title = Crossing the Divide: Dialogue Among Civilizations | publisher = School of Diplomacy and International Relations - Seton Hall University | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-4ZWAAAAYAAJ | pages = 252 | date = 2001 | isbn = 9780971606104 | access-date = 16 January 2021}} * {{cite thesis |last=Ros |first=Dominique J. J. |year=2017 |title=The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side: New Confucianism as an Alternative to Western Environmental Theories |url=https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/3865 |type=master's thesis |location=Nijmegen, Netherlands |publisher=Radboud University |access-date=November 6, 2018 }} * {{cite book |author=Tu Weiming |year=1984 |title=Confucian Ethics Today: The Singapore Challenge |location=Singapore |publisher=Federal Publications |ref={{sfnref|Tu|1984}} }} * {{cite journal |author=Tu Weiming |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=2004 |title=My American Experience: First Impressions and Future Prospects |journal=Harvard China Review |volume=5 |issue=1 |ref={{sfnref|Tu|2004}} }} {{refend}}
== External links == {{Portal|Biography|China}} * {{Official website}} * {{IEP|url-id=tu-weimi}} * [http://tuweiming.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bibliography-of-Tu-Weimings-works.pdf Bibliography of Tu Weiming's Works] * [http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/commentary/tu1098.html Asian Values and the Asian Crisis: A Confucian Humanist Perspective] * [http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=pcs Confucian Humanism as a Spiritual Resource for Global Ethics] * [http://earthcharter.org/invent/images/uploads/19%20Manuscript_Tu.pdf Ecological Implications of Confucian Humanism] * [http://www.wpfdc.org/blog/society/19519-on-humanity Spiritual Humanism: An Emerging Global Discourse] * [http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/article/view/988 The Confucian Dimension in the East Asian Development Model] * [https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/publications/daedalus/fall2001/01_fall_daedalus_Weiming.pdf The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism: Implications for China and the World] * [http://sjeas.skku.edu/upload/200605/Tu%20Weiming.pdf The Global Significance of Local Knowledge: A New Perspective on Confucian Humanism] * [http://cjas.dk/index.php/cjas/article/viewFile/1767/1787 The Rise of Industrial East Asia: The Role of Confucian Values] * [http://www.iop.or.jp/Documents/Annual%20Conferences/Toward%20a%20Dialogical%20Civilization.pdf Toward a Dialogical Civilization]
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