New Schedule for the 3rd Quarter
Topics and Dates for the
Third Quarter of 2010
Speaker Date Topic
Wang Ronghua July 13 The Tang Dynasty and Today
The speaker will give a general picture of the Tang Dynasty, he will try to compare today’s China with the Tang period and see what similarities and differences there are.
Lu Xiuli July 27 Zhang Zhongjing and His Contributions
The speaker will give a brief account of the life of China’s Saint of
Medicine Zhang Zhongjing, and his “Treatise on Cold injury”, the
oldest and complete clinical textbook of the world. She will also
explain to us the influence the Saint and his book still have today.
Wang Ronghua August 10 Begin to Study “The Book of Change”
The speaker will talk about the first of all China’s classics, the basics
one has to know in order to study the book further.
Duan Yanling August 24 A Sip of Tea
What is the authentic way of having tea? How much of tea culture has
been preserved? Yanling, CCTV 9 anchorperson will give you the
answer.
Sheldon Zhou September 7 No One Could Exhaust the Thinking of Confucius
The speaker will share with us why he kept reading the Analects of
Confucius once and again, what in this classic has inspired him; he will
also answer if the thinking of Confucius is still highly relevant to us
today.
Wang Ronghua September 21 What Is So Great about the Song Dynasty
The Song Dynasty is by no means more inferior to the Tang, it is at
least as great as the latter. The speaker will provide proofs for this
statement.