<p>Its the prize that Alfred Nobel forgot. In 2000 Mr. Kluge, the billionaire, gave $73 million to the Library of Congress for a scholarly center and other projects, which now include the million-dollar prize. The award was specifically intended for areas that the Nobel Prizes do not cover, like history, political science, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, religion, linguistics and criticism.</p>
<p>The prize is to be announced today in Washington.</p>
<hr>
<p>The librarys announcement calls the second winner, Mr. Yu, 76, the most influential Chinese intellectual working in both the Chinese and American worlds. Mr. Yu, emeritus professor of history and Chinese studies at Princeton, is an intellectual historian with a wide reach that spans Confucianism and the modern world.</p>
<p>He has been particularly interested in the way Chinese intellectuals have combined the religious and the secular, he said in an interview from his home in Princeton. They have a moral, political, social purpose, he said, as compared to the West. His most recent book is on the 12th-century Confucian scholar Zhu Xi, who has been compared to Thomas Aquinas. Zhu helped codify the Confucian canon and wrote extensive commentaries. </p>
<p>Mr. Yu has also been an outspoken supporter of the democracy movement in China. But despite this, his work, much of which is in Chinese, is widely read on the mainland.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/books/15klug.html?ref=books[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/books/15klug.html?ref=books</a></p>
<p>(may help that the librarian of congress, the ultimate decision-maker, is a princeton grad and former princeton professor)</p>