Born in Kunming, Mainland China, Tu received his B.A. at Tunghai University, Taiwan, and M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. Tu taught Chinese intellectual history at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, and since 1981, Chinese history and Chinese philosophy at Harvard University.

Tu has written about two dozen books in Chinese and English, including:

• Neo Confucian Thought: Wang Yang-ming's Youth
• ''Centrality and Communality
• Humanity and Self-Cultivation
• Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation
• Way, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual

Tu has two sons and two daughters. Eugene, Yalun, Marianna, and Rosa.

Born in Kunming, Mainland China, Tu received his B.A. at Tunghai University, Taiwan, and M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. Tu taught Chinese intellectual history at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, and since 1981, Chinese history and Chinese philosophy at Harvard University.

Tu has written about two dozen books in Chinese and English, including:

• Neo Confucian Thought: Wang Yang-ming's Youth
• ''Centrality and Communality
• Humanity and Self-Cultivation
• Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation
• Way, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual

Tu has two sons and two daughters. Eugene, Yalun, Marianna, and Rosa.