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Wesleyan University.
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Mansfield Freeman
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Career
He was one of the original management group that started an insurance business in China that became the American International Group (American International Group). He also was a prominent scholar of Chinese philosophy and a generous philanthropist. He died on November 17, 1992 at his farm in Greensboro, Vermont at the age of 97.
He was an alumnus of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, year of 1916.
The Freeman Asian Scholarship was established at Wesleyan in his honor. In addition, his endowment established the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at the university.
Freeman"s published works include an introduction to and translation of Preservation of Learning by Yen Yuan, a 17th-century Chinese philosopher. In 1990, he co-authored Tai Chen and Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning with Annping Chinese, who is now a professor at Yale.
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