Liu Boming (philosopher)
Liu Boming (; 1887–1923) was a Chinese educator and philosopher born in the late Qing Dynasty. Liu Boming is the first Chinese who received a doctor's degree in philosophy. He finished his work "The Theory of Chinese Mind Nature" in 1913, and "The Philosophy of Taoism" in 1915 when he was a Doctoral candidate at Northwestern University in the United States. He introduced western philosophy to China when he was a professor of Nanjing University. Under his influence, the scholars of Xueheng School translated a number of books of classic Greek philosophy into Chinese. Liu Boming (philosopher