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Fung Yu-Lan: A Biographical Profile*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
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A leading figure in the field of modern Chinese philosophy, Fung Yu-lan (Feng Yu-lan) has lived and worked amidst the intellectual and political tensions which have characterised the recent history of his country. His major work, Chung-kuo Che-hsueh Shih (History of Chinese Philosophy), was published in the 1930s, and is known in the West through the monumental translation into English prepared by Professor Derk Bodde of the University of Pennsylvania. Fung's technical philosophical theories were defined and articulated in his wartime writings during the 1940s. Like many of the leading Chinese intellectuals, he has now embraced Marxism-Leninism, the new orthodoxy which provides the doctrinal creed for contemporary China even as Confucianism did for the scholar-officials of the imperial period.
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* The author would like to acknowledge here the helpful suggestions he received from Howard L. Boorman and Richard C. Howard, of the Research Project on Men and Politics in Modern China at Columbia University, Professor Derk Bodde, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Liu Wu-chi, of the University of Indiana. [This article originally appeared in Wijserig Perspectif (Leiden), October–November 1962, to the editors of which we are grateful for permission to reproduce.]