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This page provides a simple browsing interface for finding entities described by a property and a named value. Other available search interfaces include the page property search, and the ask query builder.

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• De Bary, W.  + (William+Theodore+de+Bary+%28Chinese%3A+%E7 … William+Theodore+de+Bary+%28Chinese%3A+%E7%8B%84%E5%9F%B9%E7%90%86%3B+pinyin%3A+D%C3%AD+P%C3%A9il%C7%90%3B+August+9%2C+1919+%E2%80%93+July+14%2C+2017%29+was+an+American+Sinologist+and+scholar+of+East+Asian+philosophy+who+was+a+professor+and+administrator+at+Columbia+University+for+nearly+70+years.%0A%0ADe+Bary+graduated+from+Columbia+College+in+1941%2C+where+he+was+a+student+in+the+first+year+of+Columbia%27s+famed+Literature+Humanities+course.+He+then+briefly+took+up+graduate+studies+at+Harvard+University+before+leaving+to+serve+in+American+military+intelligence+in+the+Pacific+Theatre+of+World+War+Two.+Upon+his+return%2C+he+resumed+his+studies+at+Columbia%2C+where+he+completed+his+Ph.D.+in+1953.%0A%0AIn+order+to+create+text+books+for+the+non-Western+version+of+the+Columbia+humanities+course%2C+he+drew+together+teams+of+scholars+to+translate+original+source+material%2C+%27%27Sources+of+Chinese+Tradition%27%27+%281960%29%2C+%27%27Sources+of+Japanese+Tradition%27%27%2C+and+%27%27Sources+of+Indian+Tradition%27%27.+His+extensive+publications+made+the+case+for+the+universality+of+Asian+values+and+a+tradition+of+democratic+values+in+Confucianism.+He+is+recognized+as+training+the+graduate+students+and+mentoring+the+scholars+who+created+the+field+of+Neo-Confucian+studies.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWm._Theodore_de_Bary+Source+Accessed+July+18%2C+2023%5D%29Bary+Source+Accessed+July+18%2C+2023%5D%29)