TONG, Shijun

Professor of Philosophy and University Council Chairman of East China Normal University

Ton Shijun is Professor of Philosophy and University Council Chairman of East China Normal University; Editor-in-Chief at Philosophical Analysis (bimonthly), member of the Social Science Committee of Ministry of Education, and Vice Chairman of Shanghai Federation of Social Sciences. His research interests focus on epistemology, practical philosophy, social theory, etc. Major publications: The Problem of Modernity in the Dialogue between China and the West; Critique and Practice: Essays on Jürgen Haberma Dialectics of Modernization: Habermas and the Chinese Discourse of Modernization; etc.