Ren Jiyu (; born April 15, 1916 - died July 11, 2009) in
Pingyuan County,
Shandong Province
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizatio ...
was a
philosopher
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
, scholar in
religious studies,
historian, member of the
Chinese Communist Party, and honorary director of the
National Library of China. He died at 4:30 on July 11, 2009, in Beijing, at the age of 93.
Main works
* Collection of Buddhist Thinking during the Han and Tang Dynasties, 1963
* A History of Chinese Philosophy (ed.), 4 vols., 1963
* A brief History of Chinese Philosophy, 1973
* History of the Development of Chinese Philosophy, 1983
* Chinese Daoist Philosophers, 1990
* Mozi and Mohist, 1994, reprinted 2009
References
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1916 births
20th-century Chinese philosophers
Chinese librarians
History of Buddhism in China
2009 deaths
Victims of the Cultural Revolution
Writers from Dezhou
20th-century Chinese historians
Historians from Shandong
Philosophers from Shandong
National University of Peking alumni