EDITOR's Words: On Constructive-Engagement Character of Comparative Studies of Chinese Philosophy toward World Philosophy�In View of ISCWP�s Two-Decade Development

Philosophy on the theme comparative studies of Chinese philosophy toward world philosophy via celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western philosophy (ISCWP), I intend to make some reflective remarks on the mission and direction of the ISCWP in view of its past two-decade constructive development, whose methodology and strategic direction are fundamentally shared by the Journal as shown by the latter's subtitle "An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy".I will do this from the point of view of this writer both as the founding president (2002-2005) of the ISCWP and as the founding editor (2010-) of the Journal and in view of my way of coordinating several multiple-year collective research projects of the ISCWP while carrying out relevant personal research projects since the ISCWP's inception two decades ago.I will do this also with consideration of a larger background of the recent developments of philosophy, of the world situation, and of the new challenges and need.These remarks are made in a modest way in this sense: it is intended to be neither a comprehensive review on the addressed subject nor a collective report on behalf of others but based on this writer's own relevant thoughts when drafting and revising some relevant documents, relevant observations, first-hand participating experience, and reflections from a certain vantage point as explored in the past two decades. 1 My strategy is this.First, in Section 1, I briefly highlight the ISCWP's mission and direction 1 In this way, I make the following disclaimer: with this limited purpose and focus, the cited references are basically restricted to this writer's relevant ones that reports and analyzes the addressed personal observations, experience, and reflections; this limited coverage of the references means neither ignoring nor dismissing other authors' relevant writings in the literature.For a relatively inclusive survey by this writer, see Section 0.2 (also notes 3 through 8) of the "Introduction" chapter in Bo Mou (2020), Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy: A Constructive-Engagement Account (New York: Routledge).