Feng Youlan 1895 – 1990

Feng Youlan was a Chinese philosopher and one of the most influential figures in the modern reception of Chinese philosophy. He earned his doctorate at Columbia under John Dewey and produced the two-volume History of Chinese Philosophy, which long served as the standard introduction to its subject in both Chinese and English. His own constructive system, articulated in the Six Books of Zhenyuan composed during the war years, developed a New Rationalism that drew on Zhu Xi and on modern Western logic. His later relations with the communist authorities were complicated and remain contested.