Wing-tsit Chan was a Chinese scholar and professor best known for his studies of Chinese philosophy and his translations of Chinese philosophical texts.
10 Facts About Wing-tsit Chan
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Wing-tsit Chan taught at Dartmouth College and Chatham University for most of his academic career.
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Chan Wing-tsit was born on 18 August 1901 in Kaiping, a city in China's southern Guangdong Province.
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On his return to China in 1929, Wing-tsit 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.
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Wing-tsit Chan then taught at Dartmouth College from 1942 to 1966.
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In retirement, Wing-tsit Chan taught part-time at Chatham and at Columbia University.
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Wing-tsit 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.
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Wing-tsit Chan was a leading translator of Chinese philosophical texts into English in the 20th century.
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Wing-tsit Chan expressed particular satisfaction over his chapter, The path to wisdom: Chinese philosophy and religion, in the book, Half the World: The History and Culture of China and Japan, edited by Arnold J Toynbee.
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Wing-tsit Chan had received numerous academic honors and was a member of the Academia Sinica.