Tu Weiming is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tu was born in 1940 in Kunming, and grew up in Taiwan, receiving his B.A. from Tunghai University before completing his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University. Tu’s prominent publications include Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yangming’s Youth, Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Confucian Religiousness, Humanity and Self-cultivation, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation, Way, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual, and Global Significance of Concrete Humanity: Essays on the Confucian Discourse in Cultural China. Tu has been instrumental in developing international discourses on Dialogue among Civilizations and the idea of Cultural China, and has also offered critical reflections on the limits of the Enlightenment mentality and the challenge of multiple modernities.