Wing-tsit Chan
Wing-tsit Chan | |
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| 陳榮捷 | |
| Born | 18 August 1901 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater | Lingnan University Harvard University |
| Children | 3 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chinese philosophy |
| Institutions | Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Chatham University |
| Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Chén Róngjié |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Chàhn Wìhng jit |
| Jyutping | can4 wing4 zit3 |
Wing-tsit Chan (Chinese: 陳榮捷; 18 August 1901 – 12 August 1994) was a Chinese scholar and professor best known for his studies of Chinese philosophy and his translations of Chinese philosophical texts. Chan was born in China in 1901 and went to the United States in 1924, earning a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1929. Chan taught at Dartmouth College and Chatham University for most of his academic career. Chan's 1963 book A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy was highly influential in the English-speaking world, and was often used as a source for quotations from Chinese philosophical classics.
Life and career
Chan Wing-tsit was born on 18 August 1901 in
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
Chan was the author of A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, one of the most influential sources in the field of
Chan died in
The W.T. Chan Fellowships Program was established in his memory by the Lingnan Foundation in 2000, and fellowships are awarded annually to students of Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou).
Personal life
He married Wai Hing (died 1993) and is survived by a daughter, Jan Thomas Chan of Berkeley, California; two sons, Lo-Yi Chan, of New York, and Gordon Chan, of Mobile, Alabama, and five grandchildren.[2]
Selected works
- A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (ISBN 0-691-01964-9
- (with Wm. Theodore de Bary and Burton Watson) Sources of Chinese Tradition (Columbia University Press, 1960)
- An Outline and an Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Philosophy (Yale University Far Eastern Publications, 1969)
- Reflections on Things at Hand: The Chu Hsi and Lü Tsu-Ch'ien(Columbia University Press, 1967)
- Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-Ming(Columbia University Press, 1963)
- Religious Trends in Modern China (Columbia University Press, 1953)
- Chinese philosophy, 1949-63
- The Way of Lao Tzu(Bobbs-Merrill, 1963)
- (with Ariane Rump) Commentary on the Lao Tzu by Wang Pi(University of Hawaiʻi, 1979)
- The path to wisdom: Chinese Philosophy and religion, a chapter in Half the world: The history and culture of China and Japan (Thames and Hudson, London, 1973), edited by Arnold J. Toynbee.
- (ed., with Charles Moore) The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy by Junjirō Takakusu (Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut. 1976)
- Chu Hsi New Studies (1989)
Honors
- Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 1992 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies[3]
References
- ^ a b Chinese translation of an oral memoir by Chan recorded from June, 1981 to June, 1983, and compiled and transcribed by Irene Bloom
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- ^ Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 1992 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies; retrieved 2011-05-31
External links
- Obituary in the Columbia University Record
- "Remembering Wing-tsit Chan" by Irene Bloom
- Chinese translation of an oral memoir by Chan recorded from June, 1981 to June, 1983, and compiled and transcribed by Irene Bloom
- Remarks on Chan's contribution by Dartmouth College President James Wright on October 10, 2002, at Beijing Normal University
- Brief appearance (time 11:35) in film on "Dartmouth College, fall 1947" on YouTube
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