Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, a Berggruen Fellow, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i. Former Editor of Philosophy East and West, and founder of China Review International. Main research fields include: Chinese philosophy and culture, comparative philosophy. Major publications include: Thinking Through Confucius (1987), Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (1997), Anticipating China: Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (1995), The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thought (1995), The Democracy of the Dead: Confucius, Dewey, and the Hope for Democracy in China (1998).