Tu Wei-Ming
Biographic Data
| ID | 125923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tu Wei-Ming |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tu |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei-Ming |
| SIGNATURE | WEI-MING T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tu Wei-ming, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies, wrote this essay for the Spring 1991 issue of “Dædalus.” At the time of its publication, he was director of the Institute of Culture and Communication at the East-West Center in Honolulu and professor of Chinese history and philosophy at Harvard University. He has been a Fellow of the American Academy since 1988 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1472-1509)
The Structure and Function of the Confucian Intellectual in Ancient China
CHAPTER 15 The Structure and Function of the Confucian Intellectual zn Ancient China
Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center
The inscription of the Tang's basin reads, If one day you truly renew yourself day after day you will renew yourself; indeed, renew yourself every day. In the Announcement to the Prince ofKang it is said, You shall give rise to a renewed people in the Book of Poetry it is said, Though Zhou is an old state, the Mandate it holds is new For this purpose, the profound person exerts himself to the utmost in everything. ?The Great Learning1
Confucianism and liberalism
Confucianism and Human Rights
1. The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity 1. The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang DynastyDavid N. Keightley 2. Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition Burton Watson, by David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom 3. Confucius and the AnalectsIrene Bloom 4. Mozi: Utilitarianism, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson 5. The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi 6. The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity 7. Legalists and Militarists 8. The Han R…
The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought
The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today
Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity
Culture in De-Center Court
Way, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual
Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Exploring Moral Authority and Economic Power in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons
A Confucian Perspective on Embodiment
Five • The Confucian Tradition in Chinese History
The Rise of Industrial East Asia: The Role of Confucian Values
The study of East Asia as an intriguing Problematik in the field of economic development and as a methodological challenge in comparative politics has fascinated academicians in North America and in Western Europe for a whole generation. Only recently has it become a major concern of policy makers and the general public in the so-called First World. Ironically, as government officials and the mass media begin to show great interest in the rise of…
A Confucian Perspective on the Rise of Industrial East Asia
Confucian Thought: Selfhood As Creative Transformation (S U N Y Series in Philosophy)
Pain and Suffering in Confucian Self-Cultivation
Jen as a Living Metaphor in the Confucian Analects
Further Thoughts
The "Moral Universal" from the Perspectives of East Asian Thought
"Hsi-Yu Chi" as an Allegorical Pilgrimage in Self-Cultivation The Journey to the West. Vol. 1 . Anthony C. Yu
Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1472-1509)
"The "Thought of Huang-Lao: A Reflection on the Lao Tzu and Huang Ti Texts in the Silk Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui
The discovery in Hunan in 1973 of silk manuscripts over two thousand years old opened a new field of Chinese studies. The find is of considerable value and importance to students of Chinese archaeology, palaeography, textual criticism, history, and philosophy. The Silk Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui, containing around 120,000 characters, include two hitherto unknown versions of the Lao Tzu and probably the lost "Four Scriptures of the Yellow Emperor.…
Shifting Perspectives on Text and History: A Reflection on Shelly Errington's Paper
This reflection on Errington's thought-provoking paper, by an intellectual historian and a student of Chinese philosophy, does not dispute her interpretive position on classical Malay literature in general and on hikayat in particular. Rather, it attempts to challenge three salient points of her argument: that the distinction between "oral" and "written" is a hazy one in the paratactic style of the hikayat; that the "images" in this type of liter…
The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today
Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center
The inscription of the Tang's basin reads, If one day you truly renew yourself day after day you will renew yourself; indeed, renew yourself every day. In the Announcement to the Prince ofKang it is said, You shall give rise to a renewed people in the Book of Poetry it is said, Though Zhou is an old state, the Mandate it holds is new For this purpose, the profound person exerts himself to the utmost in everything. ?The Great Learning1
The Rise of Industrial East Asia: The Role of Confucian Values
The study of East Asia as an intriguing Problematik in the field of economic development and as a methodological challenge in comparative politics has fascinated academicians in North America and in Western Europe for a whole generation. Only recently has it become a major concern of policy makers and the general public in the so-called First World. Ironically, as government officials and the mass media begin to show great interest in the rise of…
The "Moral Universal" from the Perspectives of East Asian Thought
"The "Thought of Huang-Lao: A Reflection on the Lao Tzu and Huang Ti Texts in the Silk Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui
The discovery in Hunan in 1973 of silk manuscripts over two thousand years old opened a new field of Chinese studies. The find is of considerable value and importance to students of Chinese archaeology, palaeography, textual criticism, history, and philosophy. The Silk Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui, containing around 120,000 characters, include two hitherto unknown versions of the Lao Tzu and probably the lost "Four Scriptures of the Yellow Emperor.…
Confucianism and Human Rights
1. The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity 1. The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang DynastyDavid N. Keightley 2. Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition Burton Watson, by David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom 3. Confucius and the AnalectsIrene Bloom 4. Mozi: Utilitarianism, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson 5. The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi 6. The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity 7. Legalists and Militarists 8. The Han R…
Shifting Perspectives on Text and History: A Reflection on Shelly Errington's Paper
This reflection on Errington's thought-provoking paper, by an intellectual historian and a student of Chinese philosophy, does not dispute her interpretive position on classical Malay literature in general and on hikayat in particular. Rather, it attempts to challenge three salient points of her argument: that the distinction between "oral" and "written" is a hazy one in the paratactic style of the hikayat; that the "images" in this type of liter…
Centrality and Commonality
Wang Yang-Ming
Wang Yang-Ming's Youth: A Personal Reflection on the Method of My Research
My systematic study of Wang Yang-ming's life and thought began ten years ago. Although by then I had already read most of Wang Yang-ming's philosophical and political writings, it was my participation in Professor Erik Erikson's seminar on History and Life History in 1965 that prompted me to take Wang Yang-ming seriously as a “witness” of the Confucian tradition. Inspired by Erikson's imaginative inquiry into YOUNG MAN LUTHER and his particular c…
Reconstituting the Confucian Tradition
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Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-Ming's Youth
Wang Yang-Ming
Wang Yang-Ming's Youth: A Personal Reflection on the Method of My Research
My systematic study of Wang Yang-ming's life and thought began ten years ago. Although by then I had already read most of Wang Yang-ming's philosophical and political writings, it was my participation in Professor Erik Erikson's seminar on History and Life History in 1965 that prompted me to take Wang Yang-ming seriously as a “witness” of the Confucian tradition. Inspired by Erikson's imaginative inquiry into YOUNG MAN LUTHER and his particular c…
Shen Pu-hai: A Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B.C.
To Acquire Wisdom: The Way of Wang Yang-Ming
This is a stucJy of Wang Yang-ming's philosophy, consicered as a "Way" of acquiring wisdom and sagehood, based on his central insight into the nature of ~ (mina-ana-heart), the fundamental principle of all human activity which is capable of determining ana of perfecting itself through its intuitive knowledge of the good, at once inborn ana acquired.The "Introduction" indicates the broac problem of the quest for wisdom, ana of the question of "cor…
To Acquire Wisdom: The Way of Wang Yang-ming
Neo-Confucian Thought in Action
Centrality and Commonality
The "Problematik" of Kant and the Issue of Transcendence: "A Reflection on "Sinological torque
Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Chung-yung
"Hsi-Yu Chi" as an Allegorical Pilgrimage in Self-Cultivation The Journey to the West. Vol. 1 . Anthony C. Yu
Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1472-1509)
"The "Thought of Huang-Lao: A Reflection on the Lao Tzu and Huang Ti Texts in the Silk Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui
The discovery in Hunan in 1973 of silk manuscripts over two thousand years old opened a new field of Chinese studies. The find is of considerable value and importance to students of Chinese archaeology, palaeography, textual criticism, history, and philosophy. The Silk Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui, containing around 120,000 characters, include two hitherto unknown versions of the Lao Tzu and probably the lost "Four Scriptures of the Yellow Emperor.…
Shifting Perspectives on Text and History: A Reflection on Shelly Errington's Paper
This reflection on Errington's thought-provoking paper, by an intellectual historian and a student of Chinese philosophy, does not dispute her interpretive position on classical Malay literature in general and on hikayat in particular. Rather, it attempts to challenge three salient points of her argument: that the distinction between "oral" and "written" is a hazy one in the paratactic style of the hikayat; that the "images" in this type of liter…
Jen as a Living Metaphor in the Confucian Analects
Further Thoughts
The "Moral Universal" from the Perspectives of East Asian Thought
Pain and Suffering in Confucian Self-Cultivation
Confucian Thought: Selfhood As Creative Transformation (S U N Y Series in Philosophy)
A Confucian Perspective on the Rise of Industrial East Asia
The Rise of Industrial East Asia: The Role of Confucian Values
The study of East Asia as an intriguing Problematik in the field of economic development and as a methodological challenge in comparative politics has fascinated academicians in North America and in Western Europe for a whole generation. Only recently has it become a major concern of policy makers and the general public in the so-called First World. Ironically, as government officials and the mass media begin to show great interest in the rise of…
Five • The Confucian Tradition in Chinese History
A Confucian Perspective on Embodiment
Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Exploring Moral Authority and Economic Power in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons
Philosophy (25 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (24 works) · History (16 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · China (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Art (7 works)