- known as
- diplomat, journalist, university teacher, politician, writer, philosopher, scholar
- fields
- philosophy
- awards
- honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong, 1935, honorary doctor of Harvard University, 1936, honorary doctor of the University of Southern California, 1936, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, 1939, honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, 1939, honorary doctor of the Wesleyan University, 1940, honorary doctor of the Duke University, 1940, honorary doctor of the Bryn Mawr College, 1940, honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania, 1940, honorary doctor of the Clark University, 1940, honorary doctorate from Brown University, 1940, honorary doctor of Yale University, 1940, honorary doctor of the Union College, 1940, honorary doctor of the University of California, Berkeley, 1941, honorary doctor of the University of Vermont, 1941, honorary doctorate from the McGill University, 1941, honorary doctor of the Lake Forest College, 1941, honorary doctor of the Dickinson College, 1941, honorary doctor of the Middlebury College, 1941, Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto, 1941, honorary doctor of the Dartmouth College, 1942, honorary doctor of the Denison University, 1942, honorary doctor of State University of New York, 1942, honorary doctor of the Ohio State University, 1942, honorary doctor of the University of Rochester, 1942, honorary doctor of the Oberlin College, 1942, honorary doctor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1942, honorary doctor of the University of Toledo, 1942, honorary doctor of the Northeastern University, 1942, honorary doctorate from Princeton University, 1942, honorary doctor of the Bucknell University, 1943, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, 1945, honorary doctor of the Colgate University, 1949, honorary doctor of the Claremont Graduate University, 1950, honorary doctor of the University of Hawaii, 1959, Messenger Lectures, 1945
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, Academia Sinica, Crescent Moon Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- notable works
- An Outline History of Chinese Philosophy, A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform, History of Vernacular Literature
