Du Weiming's research revolves around the modern transformation of Confucian tradition in China, and he is known as the representative of contemporary neo-Confucianism. Published English works 1 1, Chinese works 16, and hundreds of papers. Due to his outstanding contributions, Du Weiming won the 9th International Toejie Research Award in 20001year and the Ecological Religion Award awarded by the United Nations in 2002.

Born in Nanhai, Guangdong, 1940 Kunming, Yunnan. 196 1 graduated from Donghai university in Taiwan Province province. Later, he won the Harvard-Yanjing Scholarship to study in the United States, and successively obtained the master's degree and doctor's degree from Harvard University, and became an American citizen from 65438 to 0976. He has taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. 198 1 onwards, professor of history and philosophy in China, Harvard University, and former chairman of the Religious Research Committee and head of the East Asian Language and Civilization Department. 1988 was elected as a member of the American Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, and since 1996, he has been the president of Harvard Yanjing Society. 1990 seconded the Hawaii East-West Center as the director of the Institute of Culture and Communication. 1995 delivered a "national speech" at five universities in South Asia at the invitation of the Indian Philosophy Committee. 20 10 12.20 was hired by Peking University as a professor of humanities and dean of Peking University Institute of Advanced Humanities. In addition, he also served as honorary professor of cheung kong graduate school of business and chairman of Changjiang Humanities Committee.