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Con- tsibured chapters on Chinese philosophy 0 Philosophy—Ea and West, China, Twentieth Century Philosophy, etc. Aux thor of Religion in Modern China (in press). PhD., Harvard University. Honer H, Duss. Professor of Chinese, Oxford University. Translator of The Works of Heintze and History of she Former Han Dynasty (two volumes pub- lished and ewo in press). Author of Hsinize, the Moulder of Confucianism, BA, Yale University, PhD, University of Chicago. J. Kwee SWAN LiAT. Author of articles in Indonesian and Dutch languages in Indonesian and Chinese papers in Indo- nesia, including "2500 Years of Confu- cianism” and “Cultural Background of the Indonesian Minority Problems.” BSc, Uni- versity of Leiden. PAUL MASSON-OuRSEL. Director of Ad- vanced Studies, the Sorbonne; co-director La Revue Philosopbique. Author of La philosopbie comparke, Esquisse d'une bis- toire de Ia philosophie Indienne, L'inde antique, La philosopbie en Orient, La pensée de VOrient, Agrégt de Philosphie, Docteur &s Lettres. Hanon E. MCCARTHY. Assistant Pro- fessor of Philosophy, University of Ha- wail, AB, MA, PhD, University of California, ‘CHARLES A. MooRE. Professor of Phi- losophy, University of Hawaii, Editor and coauthor of Philosophy—East and West and Essays in East-West Philosophy: an Attempt at World Philosophical Synabesis (in press). Co-editor, with Wing-sie Chan, of Junjiro Takakusu's Essentials of Buddbist Philosophy. Chairman of East- ‘West Philosophers’ Conferences, 1939 and 1949. B.A. PhD, Yale University. SwAMt NIKHILANANDA. Mook of the Ramakrishna Order, India. Founder and Leader, Ramakzishna-Vivekasanda Cente, New York, Lecturer and writer on Hindu religion and philosophy. 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