Robert Elliott Allinson

Professor Allinson lived through, taught, wrote and researched during the day to day making of modern Chinese history, commencing the year after the death of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, experiencing first-hand the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, through the period of Deng Xiaoping and through the era of others who were to take his place. He was full professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, teaching both Chinese and Western Philosophy. He was one of the first Americans to visit and lecture in China. He was a Visiting Fellow to Yale University, Oxford University, and Erskine Fellow to the University of Canterbury. He was Visiting Professor at Fudan University, was personally invited by Sir Joseph Needham to be a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and by the renowned Chinese scholar Tang Yijie to become Visiting Professor at Peking University. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the Soka University of America. He has written extensively in the field of Chinese philosophy. His Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots is in its 11th impression with Oxford University Press. His Harmony and Strife: Contemporary Perspectives, East and West, co-edited with the late Shu-hsien Liu, was published by Chinese University Press and distributed by Columbia University Press. His Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation in its 8th impression, was published in Chinese and Korean, and is cited in the Encyclopedia Britannica.