[3] 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.
[2] When the Chinese National College Entrance Examination resumed in late 1977 following the Cultural Revolution, Tong gained entry to ECNU to study philosophy.
[5] After graduating from the University of Bergen, Tong served as the chair of the philosophy department at ECNU from 1995 to 1998[3] and was appointed deputy dean of the School of Humanities from 1997 to 2000.
[6] Tong’s scholarship focuses primarily on philosophic paths for dialogue between China and the West and philosophy’s application to contemporary society.
[8] Tong is also the author (with Li Guangcheng) of the Chinese translation of Hilary Putnam’s Reason, Truth, and History.