Xu Fuguan (1902/1903-1982) is a Chinese intellectual historian and philosopher

Chinese philosophy

Chinese philosophy is philosophy written in the Chinese tradition of thought. The majority of traditional Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States era, during a period known as the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which was characterized by significant intellectual and...

. He made notable contributions in Confucianism

Confucianism

Confucianism is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius . Confucianism originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring and Autumn Period, but later developed metaphysical and cosmological elements in the Han...

 studies, and he is attached to the contemporary New Confucianism

New Confucianism

New Confucianism is an intellectual movement of Confucianism that began in the early 20th century in Republican China, and revived in post-Mao era contemporary China. It is deeply influenced by, but not identical with, the Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties...

, a philosophical movement initiated by Xiong Shili

Xiong Shili

Xiong Shili was a modern Chinese philosopher whose major work A New Treatise on Consciousness-only is a Confucian critique of the Buddhist "consciousness-only" theory popularized in China by the Tang Dynasty pilgrim Xuanzang....

.

Biography

Xu is born in 1902 or 1903 in a family of farmers in Hubei

Hubei

' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...

 (China). He studied in various universities and then began a teaching career until 1926. He then took various positions in the army, then he devoted to politics, working with Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek

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 until 1946. He then devoted himself to "the study of books" (editing,
academic papers) in the island of Taiwan

Taiwan

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. Between 1955 and 1969, he taught Chinese philosophy at the Donghai University.
He taught at the New Asia Research Institute at Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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up to his death in 1982.