10 Facts About Zhang Dongsun

Zhang Dongsun, known as Chang Tung-sheng, was a Chinese philosopher, public intellectual and political figure.

Zhang Dongsun was a professor of Philosophy and Sinology at Yenching University and Tsinghua University.

Zhang Dongsun was born in 1886 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Zhang Dongsun took part in famous debates about the relative merits of "science and metaphysics," allying himself with the then-fashionable metaphysics of Henri Bergson.

Zhang Dongsun was equally well-known, as an exponent of the philosophy of Bertrand Russell, whom he accompanied on a tour of China in 1920.

From 1935 to 1937, Zhang Dongsun founded and presided over the literary and philosophical monthly periodical Wenzhe yuekan at the Tsinghua Campus.

Zhang Dongsun veered towards acceptance of the inevitability of Communist victory and took government positions after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Zhang Dongsun was expelled by the China Democratic League soon after.

However, this refers not only to the level of our perception and comprehension; according to Zhang Dongsun, the structured order of relations is all that really exists in the cosmos.

Zhang Dongsun was the first philosopher who exposed correlative thinking as a main characteristic of Chinese philosophy and analogical argument as a specific Chinese mode of inference.