Introduction. The unbalanced relationship between the study of Western philosophy in China and that of chinese philosophy in the west

In the Western World, the academic study of philosophy is an ancient practice. The first organised universitas in which philosophy was studied as an autonomous discipline was founded in Paris in the 13th century, and was promoted by both the kings of France and the popes of that period, especially Innocent III, Honorius III and Gregory IX. In those decades, which were so important for the birth of the European cultural and religious identity, Gregory IX significantly warned the masters of the...