Chung-Ying Cheng (; November 8, 1935 – July 2, 2024) was an American scholar of Chinese philosophy and a professor of philosophy at the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offic ...

. He is considered one of the pioneers who formalized the field of Chinese philosophy in the United States in the 1960s.

Education and career

Cheng received his B.A. from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; zh, t=國立臺灣大學, poj=Kok-li̍p Tâi-oân Tāi-ha̍k, p=, s=) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Taiwan under J ...

in 1956, his M.A. from

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

in 1958, and Ph.D. from

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in 1963. He joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1963. He had lectured at numerous prestigious institutions such as

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and

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. He also served as Chair of Department of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Institute of Philosophy at

. Recently, he was Visiting Chair Professor in Chinese Philosophy at

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, visiting professor at

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and

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

, Distinguished Chair Professor at

Renmin University The Renmin University of China (RUC) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and ...

, and Visiting Chair Professor of Humanities at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Cheng's research interests were in the areas of Chinese logic, the

I Ching The ''I Ching'' or ''Yijing'' ( ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The ''I Ching'' was originally a divination manual in ...

and the origins of

Chinese philosophy Chinese philosophy (Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 中国哲学; Traditional Chinese characters, traditional Chinese: 中國哲學) refers to the philosophical traditions that originated and developed within the historical ...

Confucian Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, religion, theory of government, or way of life. Founded by Confucius ...

and

Neo-Confucian Neo-Confucianism (, often shortened to ''lǐxué'' 理學, literally "School of Principle") is a Morality, moral, Ethics, ethical, and metaphysics, metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, which originated with Han Yu (768� ...

Philosophy, the onto-

hermeneutics Hermeneutics () is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. As necessary, hermeneutics may include the art of understanding and communication. ...

of Eastern and Western philosophy, and Chan (

Zen Zen (; from Chinese: ''Chán''; in Korean: ''Sŏn'', and Vietnamese: ''Thiền'') is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka phil ...

) philosophy. Recently, he had specifically worked on the philosophy of c-management and Confucian Bio-Ethics as they relate to the Chinese tradition, and on how Chinese culture relates to world culture. He founded the ''Journal of Chinese Philosophy'' published by

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in 1973 and has served as

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Death

On July 2, 2024, he died in

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at the age of 88.

Books

*Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1991). ''New dimensions of Confucian and neo-Confucian philosophy''. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1991). ''Shiji zhi jiao de jueze: Lun Zhong-Xi zhexue zhong de huitong yuronghe'' 'Choice at the turn of a new century: On the interflux and integration of Chinese and Western philosophy'' Shanghai, China: Zhishi Chubanshe. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1991). ''Wenhua, lilun yu guanli: Zhongguo xiandaihua de zhexue xingsi'' 'Culture, ethics, and the philosophy of management'' Guiyang: Guizhou Renmin Chubanshe. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1995). ''C lilun: Yijing guanli zhexue'' 'C Theory: The Yijing philosophy of management'' Taipei, Taiwan: Dongda Tushu Chubanshe. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1999). ''C Theory: Chinese philosophy of management'' (in Chinese). Shanghai, China: Xueling Publishers. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (2000). ''Ontology and interpretation'' (in Chinese). Beijing, China: Sanlian Publishers. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (2001). ''A treatise on Confucian philosophy: The way of uniting the outer and the inner'' (in Chinese). Beijing, China: China Social Sciences Publishers. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (2020). ''The primary way: Philosophy of Yijing''. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (2023). ''The philosophy of change: Comparative insights on the Yijing''. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.

Edited books

*Cheng, Chung-Ying, & Bunnin, Nicholas (Eds.). (2002). ''Contemporary Chinese philosophy''. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. *Cheng, Chung-Ying, & Zhou, Hanguang. (1997). ''Light of wisdom: The contemporary application of Chinese management philosophy''. Shanghai, China: Chinese Textile University Press. *Hsiung, James C., & Cheng, Chung-Ying (Eds.). (1991). ''Distribution of power and rewards: Proceedings of the International Conference on Democracy and Social Justice East and West, 1988''. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. *Krijnen, Christian, & Cheng, Chung-Ying (Eds.). (2021). ''Philosophical methodology in classical Chinese and German philosophy''. Nordhausen, Germany: Traugott Bautz.

Journal articles and book chapters

*Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1986). Chinese philosophy in America, 1965-1985: Retrospect and prospect. ''Journal of Chinese Philosophy'', ''13''(2), 155–165. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1986). On the

environmental ethics In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resourc ...

of the ''Tao'' and the ''Ch’i''. ''Environmental Ethics'', ''8''(4), 351–370. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1986). The concept of face and its Confucian roots. ''Journal of Chinese Philosophy'', ''13''(3), 329–348. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1987). Logic and language in Chinese philosophy. ''Journal of Chinese Philosophy'', ''14''(3), 285–307. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1997). Confucianism and modernization. In Hsueh-Li Cheng (Eds.), ''New essays in Chinese philosophy'' (pp. 221–231). New York, New York: Peter Lang. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (1998). Transforming Confucian virtues into human rights. In Wm Theodore de Bary & Tu Weiming (Eds.), ''Confucianism and human rights'' (pp. 142–153). New York, New York: Columbia University Press. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (2008). The ''Yijing'' as creative inception of Chinese philosophy. ''Journal of Chinese Philosophy'', ''35''(2), 201–218. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (2021). Creative ontology of interpretation: How to understand identity, difference, and harmony in Chinese Philosophy. In Christian Krijnen & Chung-Ying Cheng (Eds.), ''Philosophical methodology in classical Chinese and German philosophy'' (pp. 169–188). Nordhausen, Germany: Traugott Bautz. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (2022). Chinese principles of human communication: A philosophical outline. In Yoshitaka Miike & Jing Yin (Eds.), ''The handbook of global interventions in communication theory'' (pp. 253–265). New York, New York: Routledge. *Cheng, Chung-Ying. (2022). The ''I Ching'' as a symbolic system of integrated communication. In Wimal Dissanayake (Ed.), ''Communication theory: The Asian perspective'' (2nd edition, pp. 77–101). Manila, Philippines: Asian Media Information and Communication Center.

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