Tong Shijun

Tong Shijun (; born September 14, 1958 ) is a Chinese philosopher and Chancellor of New York University Shanghai. From 2011 to 2019, Tong served as professor of philosophy and party secretary at East China Normal University (ECNU), where he also held several positions in the philosophy faculty and university administration from 1984 to 2004.

Early life and education Tong spent the first six years of his life in a village of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province before moving to Shanghai, where he went to elementary and middle school. He ultimately earned a PhD in philosophy from the university in 1994, After graduating from the University of Bergen, Tong served as the chair of the philosophy department at ECNU from 1995 to 1998 Tong's scholarship focuses primarily on philosophic paths for dialogue between China and the West and philosophy's application to contemporary society. whose 1992 work Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy was translated into Chinese by Tong. Tong is also the author (with Li Guangcheng) of the Chinese translation of Hilary Putnam's Reason, Truth, and History.

Tong continues to serve as director of ECNU’s National Institutes of Educational Policy Research. He is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and member of the board of consulting editors for the journal Philosophy and Social Criticism. He has also served as an advisory member of the Shanghai Ministry of Education and of the Shanghai Municipal Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).