Curriculum Vitae

Present Position

• Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University
• Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute
• Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies,
• Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Personal Information

• Born: February 1940
• Place of Birth: Kunming, China
• Phone: (617) 495-3369
• Fax: (617) 495-7798
• E-mail: wtu@fas.harvard.edu

Degree

• B.A. in Chinese Studies, Tunghai University, Taiwan, 1961
• M.A. in Regional Studies — East Asia, Harvard University, 1963
• Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University, 1968
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,  1988
• Fellow of International Institute of Philosophy, 2010

Main Appointments

• 1966-1967: Lecturer in the Humanities, Tunghai University, Taiwan.
• 1968-1971: Assistant Professor in East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
• 1971-1981: Successively Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley.
• 1981-: Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy, Harvard University.
• 1983-1986: Chairman, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.
• 1986-1989: Chairman, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University.
• 1996-: Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute.
• 1999-: Honored as the Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies, Harvard University. It is the first time that a professorship is named on ?onfucian Studies?in the English-speaking world.

Other Appointments

• 1981-: Chair, Harvard Seminar in Confucian Studies.
• 1984-1992: Overseas Member of Board of Directors, Institute of East Asian Philosophy, Singapore.
• 1988-: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 1990: Visiting Professor at L’Ecole Practique des Haute Etudes, Paris.
• 1990-1991: Director, Institute of Culture and Communication, East-West Center, Hawaii.
• 1993-: Co-chair, Seminar on “The Chinese in the Global Community,” Aspen Institute
• 1995-: Chair, Advisory Board of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
• 1997-: Member of the International Advisory Panel, Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya.
• 1998- 2001: Member of the Advisory Committee to the Program Committee of the Eastern Section of American Philosophical Association.
• 1998- 2000: Member of the International Advisory Panel, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, National University of Singapore.
• 2000-: Member of the International Advisory Council of Toda Institute
• 2001: Group of Eminent Person, the United Nation