Liu Boming (philosopher)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Liu.

Liu Boming (simplified Chinese: 刘伯明; traditional Chinese: 劉伯明; pinyin: Liú Bómíng; 1887–1923) was a Chinese educator and philosopher born in the late Qing Dynasty.

Liu Boming is the first Chinese who received a doctor's degree in philosophy. He finished his work The Theory of Chinese Mind Nature in 1913, and The Philosophy of Taoism in 1915 when he was a Doctoral candidate at Northwestern University in the United States.[1][2] He introduced western philosophy to China when he was a professor of Nanjing University. Under his influence, the scholars of Xueheng School translated a number of books of classic Greek philosophy into Chinese.

His wife, Chen Fenzi, was a graduate educator with a degree from Columbia University who had studied with John Dewey.[1]

References

1. Wang, Lei (2019-09-24). John Dewey's Democratic Education and its Influence on Pedagogy in China 1917-1937. Springer Nature. p. 106. ISBN 978-3-658-27568-6.
2. Tu, Ching-I (2017). Interpretation and Intellectual Change : Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective. London. pp. 257–270. ISBN 978-0-203-78828-8. OCLC 1004370016.