Robert Elliott Allinson

Robert Elliott Allinson is Professor of Philosophy at Soka University of America, USA and former Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He has been invited to be Visiting Professor or Fellow at Peking University, Fudan University, Waseda University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Canterbury, Yale University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Copenhagen Business School, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He has been a Professor of Philosophy in the Far East for several decades and this book contains information gathered first hand from Chinese sources. He has published poetry on adjoining pages with Nobel laureates Boris Pasternak and Odysseus Elytis and has won an Academy of Poet's Award judged by Octavio Paz.