Thomas H.C. Lee

Thomas H.C. Lee is a leading interpreter of traditional Chinese education, having recently published a history of the subject (Education in Traditional China, a History, Leiden: Brill, 2000). He got his Ph. D. degree from Yale University and was appointed as Professor and Chairman of Asian Studies at the City College of New York later on. Dr. Lee is currently adviser to the CD-Rom Project for Ancient Chinese Texts of China's Ministry of Education, Director of International Project of Chinese and Comparative Historiography, Director of Chinese Historiography Project (Association for Asian Studies, USA), and Overseas Editor of Chinese Academy (Hunan University, China). Professor Lee's other publications include Government Education and Examinations in Sung China, China and Europe, Images and Influences in Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, and the New and the Multiple, Sung Senses of the Past. He is also the recent recipient of a $ 1.75 million research grant from the Freeman Foundation.

Chinese Academies: Learning and the Pursuit for Moral Perfection

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The publication of Zhongguo Shuyuan earlier this year by Shanghai Educational Press is a significant turning point, in the study and appreciation of the educational role academies played in traditional China. I wrote the English introduction for the book, which is richly illustrated with pictures. Academies dated to the eighth century and have until the … Read more