Background
Tu, Ching-I was born on May 13, 1935 in Nanking, China. Son of Show-mei and I-fang Tu.
涂经诒, 涂經詒
researcher humanities educator
Tu, Ching-I was born on May 13, 1935 in Nanking, China. Son of Show-mei and I-fang Tu.
He graduated from National Taiwan University with Bachelor of Arts in 1958 and received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1967.
He is currently a professor and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University and the director of the Confucius Institute of Rutgers University (CIRU). Tu has edited several books and authored several academic papers. He was a visiting professor at University of Hawaii in Honolulu, from 1971 to 1972, and then at National Taiwan University in Taipei, from 1974 to 1975.
Tu was the first faculty member to teach Chinese language at Rutgers University.
He established the Chinese program, and was important in the development of Chinese studies, Asian studies and Asian-American studies at Rutgers. He initiated the introduction of Japanese in the 1980s and was instrumental in the introduction of Korean and Hindi.
Tu is currently the Director of the Confucius Institute at Rutgers.
Member of Association Asian Studies, American Association for Chinese Studies, Association for Foreign Language Department Chairs.
Married Sabrina Son of Wang, June 14, 1970. Children: Stephen Shih-chung, Sylvia Shih-yun.