Ren Jiyu

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Nationality China Known for Chinese librarian		Name Ren Jiyu Education Peking University
Born April 15, 1916 Pingyuan County, Shandong Province, China Occupation National Library of China Died July 11, 2009, Beijing, China

Ren Jiyu (Chinese: 任继愈; born April 15, 1916 - died July 11, 2009) in Pingyuan County, Shandong Province was a philosopher, 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

Ren Jiyu Wikipedia

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