Background
Kasoff, Ira Ethan was born on November 23, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Theodore K. and Jennie (Maurer) Shapiro.
(Chang Tsai is one of the three major Chinese philosophers...)
Chang Tsai is one of the three major Chinese philosophers who, in the eleventh century, revitalised Confucian thought after centuries of stagnation and formed the foundation for the neo-Confucian thinking that was predominant till the nineteenth century. The book analyses in depth Chang's views of man, his nature and endowments, the cosmos, heaven and earth, the problems of learning and self cultivation, the ideal of the sage - and how that ideal might be attained. It looks at the intellectual climate of the eleventh century, the assumptions Chinese intellectuals shared, and the problems which concerned them. It describes the triumph of Chang's rivals within the neo-Confucian movement and the subsequent emergence of neo-Confucianism to state orthodoxy in the thirteenth century.
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Kasoff, Ira Ethan was born on November 23, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Theodore K. and Jennie (Maurer) Shapiro.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1982.
Program associate National Committee on United States-China Relations, New York City, 1983. China representative Fuqua World Trade Corporation, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China, 1984-1985. Chief commercial section American Consulate General, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China, 1985-1987.
Consultant Boston Consultant Group, San Francisco, Hong Kong, 1987-1989. Assistant commercial attache American Embassy, Tokyo, since 1990.
(Chang Tsai is one of the three major Chinese philosophers...)
Married Ellen R. Eliasoph, June 23, 1985.