Chatham University Faculty - Wing-Tsit Chan, Janisse Ray, Peter Oresick, Michael SIMMs, Christopher Cokinos, Sally Hobart Alexander (Paperback)

Chapters: Wing-Tsit Chan, Janisse Ray, Peter Oresick, Michael Simms, Christopher Cokinos, Sally Hobart Alexander, Karen Lynn Williams, Katherine Ayres, Sheryl St. Germain, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Linda Underhill. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Professor Wing-tsit Chan ()(August 18, 1901 - August 12, 1994) was one of the world's leading scholars of Chinese philosophy and religion, active in the United States. Chan was born to a peasant family in rural Kaiping (), in the Toisan (Taishan, ) area of southern China. In 1916 he enrolled at Lingnan University () near Canton. After graduating with a bachelor's degree from Lingnan, he began his graduate studies at Harvard University in 1924. There he studied with Irving Babbitt, William Ernest Hocking, and Alfred North Whitehead, and was advised by James Haughton Woods, an eminent Sanskritist and translator of the Yoga Sutra. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Chinese Culture in 1929. On his return to China in 1929, Chan received an appointment at Lingnan, which in 1927 had been reconstituted as Lingnan University, and served as its Dean of the Faculty from 1929 to 1936. In 1935 the University of Hawai'i offered him a visiting appointment. In 1937 he moved to Honolulu and taught there until 1942. He then taught at Dartmouth College from 1942 to 1966. He was Professor Emeritus of Chinese Philosophy and Culture at Dartmouth College, and, from 1966 to 1982, Anna R.D. Gillespie Professor of Philosophy at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Chan was the author of A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, one of the most influential sources in the field of Asian studies, and of hundreds of books and articles in both English and Chinese on Chinese philosophy and religion. He was a leading translator of...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=361216