C O N T R I B U T O R S ARAKI KENGO Is a Graduate of Kyushu
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CONTRIBUTORS ARAKI KENGO is a graduate of Kyushu University and is now Professor of Chinese Philosophy in its Faculty of Letters, specializing in Sung-Ming thought and Bud- dhism. His principal works include Buddhism and Confucianism (Bukkyo to jukyo) (1963); and Studies in Ming Thought (Mindai shiso kenkyu) (1972). WILLIAM s. ATWELL is completing a doctorate in East Asian Studies at Princeton University with a dissertation on the scholar-official Ch'en Tzu-lung (1608-47). His particular interest is in the social and intellectual history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China. WING-TSIT CHAN is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Philosophy and Culture at Dartmouth College and Anna R. D. Gillespie Professor of Philosophy at Chatham College. Representative of his numerous works on Chinese philosophy are his Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (1963), his translation Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming (1963), and his translation of Chu Hsi's Reflections on Things at Hand (1967). CHUNG-YING CHENG is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii and works in the fields of Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, and Ameri- can logical philosophy. He has published studies in classical Chinese logic, Con- fucianism, and Neo-Confucianism, including a book, Tai Chen's Inquiry into Goodness (1969). He is the founder and editor of the Journal of Chinese Philoso- phy and is currently working on a book dealing with the philosophies of Chu Hsi and Wang Yang-ming. EDWARD T. CH'IEN is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University and is working on a full-scale study of Chiao Hung to be entitled "The Late Ming Neo-Confucian Synthesis in Chiao Hung." He has taught at Sam Houston State University in Texas. WM. THEODORE DE BARY is Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies at Columbia University, where he also currently serves as Vice President and Provost. A former President of the Association for Asian Studies, he is the editor and co- author of Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Sources of Indian Tradition, and, most recently, Self and Society in Ming Thought. KRISTIN YU GREENBLATT is Assistant Professor of Religion at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She was trained in Chinese philosophy and Buddhism xii CONTRIBUTORS at Tunghai University, Taiwan, and at Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. degree with a dissertation on "The Career of a Buddhist Monk: Yun- chi Chu-hung." Her field of interest is the history of Chinese Buddhism since the T'ang Dynasty. RICHARD JOHN LYNN is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Mas- sachusetts, Amherst, and has been lecturer in Chinese at the University of Auck- land, New Zealand (1970-72). He is currently working on a book-length study of the life and writings of Kuan Yun-shih (1286-1324). His fields of special interest include the literature, literary criticism, and aesthetics of the literati tradition of Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing times. IAN MCMORRAN is lecturer in Classical Chinese at Oxford University, where he obtained his doctorate for a thesis entitled "Wang Fu-chih and his Political Thought." He has specialized in Chinese intellectual history, and is currently engaged on research in the late Ming period. A comprehensive study by him of Wang Fu-chih's life and thought is to be published soon. WILLARD J. PETERSON is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, has an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, Uni- versity of London, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has published a bi- ography of Ku Yen-wu and other articles. TANG CHUN-L is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Advanced Chinese Studies, New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was educated in China at the Sino-Russian University, Peking University, and the National Central University. He helped to found New Asia College, of which he served as dean from its inception until 1966. The most recent of his many books in Chinese philosophy is Chung-kuo che-hsueh yuan-lun (Studies in the origin and development of Chinese philosophical ideas), of which four volumes have al- ready been published. WEI-MING TU is Associate Professor of History, University of California at Berke- ley. He was educated at Tunghai University and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1968), and has taught at Princeton University. His fields of interest include Con- fucianism, Chinese intellectual history, and religious philosophies of Asia. Cur- rently he is working on Neo-Confucian humanism. PEI-YI wu is Associate Professor of Classical and Oriental Languages at Queens College, City University of New York, and Visiting Associate Professor of Chi- nese at Columbia University. He is currently doing a study on Chinese autobio- graphy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. .