Biography of Dr. Weiming Tu

Tu Weiming 杜维明; is a historian, philosopher and an educator. One of the most influential thinkers of our time who introduced the concept of “Cultural China”, Professor Tu has provided important insights into and rendered Confucian thoughts relevant and applicable to the present. He is the founding Dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University and a Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University. Professor Tu is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He served as the director of the Institute of Culture and Communications at the East-West Center In Hawaii (1990-1991) and was the Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University (1999 – 2010). He also served as the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute from 1996 to 2008. Professor Tu has written numerous books and papers on Confucian learning, humanism and philosophy, including Neo-Confucian Thought in Action (1976); Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought (1980) and The Way, Learning and Politics: Perspectives on the Confucian Intellectual (1988).