- Liu Boming (philosopher)
Liu Boming (zh-tsp|t=劉伯明|s=刘伯明|p=Liú Bómíng; 1887–1923) was an
educator andphilosopher . He is a pioneer of modernhumanism and an advocate ofliberal education inChina .Liu Boming is the earliest Chinese scholar to study Chinese culture with modern philosophical view. He finished his work "The Theory of Chinese Mind Nature" in 1913, and "The Philosophy of Taoism" in 1915 when he was a Doctoral candidate at
Northwestern University in America. He introduced western philosophy to China when he was a professor ofNanjing University . Under his influence, the scholars of Xueheng School translated a number of books of classic Greek philosophy into Chinese.
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