Liu Boming (; 1887–1923) was a Chinese

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and

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born in the late

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. Liu Boming is the first Chinese who received a doctor's degree in philosophy. He finished his work ''The Theory of Chinese Mind Nature'' in 1913, and ''The Philosophy of Taoism'' in 1915 when he was a Doctoral candidate at

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in the United States. He introduced western philosophy to China when he was a professor of

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. Under his influence, the scholars of Xueheng School translated a number of books of classic Greek philosophy into Chinese. His wife, Chen Fenzi, was a graduate educator with a degree from

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who had studied with

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Boming 1923 deaths 1887 births Educators from Nanjing Academic staff of the University of Nanking Academic staff of Nanjing University Writers from Nanjing Northwestern University alumni 20th-century Chinese philosophers