Feng Yu-lan (1895-), noted philosopher, best known for his Chung-kuo che-hsueh-shih [history of Chinese philosophy] and for his philosophical system, which combined Neo-Confucianism of the Ch'eng-Chu school with Western realism and logic and with elements of Taoist thought. After 1950, he publicly committed himself to interpreting Chinese philosophy according to the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. A […]

Ting Wen-chiang (13 April 1887-5 January 1936), known as V. K. Ting, professor of geology at Peking University (1931-34) and secretary general of the Academia Sinica (1934-36) who was best known for his achievements as founder and first director (1916-21) of the China Geological Survey. Born into a gentry family in T'aihsing, Kiangsu, V. K. […]