John Ching Hsiung Wu

John Ching Hsiung Wu [Sometimes erroneously written as John Chin Hsung Wu] (also John C.H. Wu; pinyin: Wu Jingxiong) (born Ningbo 1899 - 1986) was a Chinese poet, lawyer, and writer. He wrote works in Chinese, English, French, and German on Christian spirituality, Chinese literature (including a translation of the "Tao Te Ching") and on legal topics. He was a convert to Roman Catholicism. He maintained a correpondence with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and later produced scholarly work examining Holmes' legal thought.

Works by John C.H. Wu

*Juridical Essays and Studies (Shanghai, China: Commercial Press, 1928) (Shanghai, China: Commercial Press, 1933)
*Some Unpublished Letters of Justice Holmes ( [Shanghai, China] : s.n., 1935)
*The Art of Law and Other Essays Juridical and Literary (Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1936)
*Essays in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy ( [Shanghai] : Soochow University Law School, 1938) (1981)
*The Science of Love: A Study in the Teachings of Thérèse of Lisieux (Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1941)(Hongkong: Catholic Truth Society, 1941)
*Justice Holmes to Doctor Wu: An Intimate Correspondence 1921-1932 (New York: Central Book Co., 1947)
*From Confucianism to Catholicism (Huntingdon, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1949)
*Beyond East and West (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951) (Taipei: Mei Ya Publications, 1951) (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1952) (Taipei: Mei Ya Publications, 1969) (Beijing: She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 2002)
*The Interior Carmel: The Threefold Way of Love (London: Sheed & Ward, 1954) (Taipei, Taiwan: Hwakang Bookstore, 1975)
*Fountain of Justice: A Study in Natural Law (new York; Sheed and Ward, 1955)(London: Sheed and Ward, 1959)(Taipei: Mei Ya Publications, 1971)
*Justice Holmes: A New Estimate (Philadelphia: Brandeis Lawyers Society, 1957)
*Cases and Materials on Jurisprudence (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1958)
*Chinese Humanism and Christian spirituality (Jamaica, New York: St. John's University Press, 1965)
*Sun Yat-sen: The Man and His Ideas (Taipei: Published for Sun Yat-sen Cultural Foundation by the Commercial Press, 1971)
*The Four Seasons of T`ang Poetry (Rutland, Vermont: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1972)
*Zhongguo zhe hsuëh [Chinese philosophy] (Taipei, Taiwan: China Academy, 1974)
*The Golden Age of Zen (Taipei, Taiwan: United Publishingt Center, 1975) (Taipei: Hua kang ch`u pan yu hsien kung ssu / tsung ching hsiao Hua kang shu ch`eng, 1975) (New York: Doubleday, 1996. ISBN 978-0385-47993-6)
*Tao Teh Ching (translation) (New York: St. John's University Press, 1961) [Dao teh jing (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1997)] (Boston: Shambhala, 2003)

References

External links

*http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/wu.html
*http://www.geocities.com/johnaugus/taowu.html