The Chinese Culture Lecture Series 2022 features selected Chinese civilization lectures by renowned scholars and artists from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong organized by CityU over the past 20 years.
Retrospective Lectures: Chinese Culture Classic Lecture Series 2022 Events
The Styles and Categories of Writings on Silk and Wooden Blocks
LI Ling was born in Xingtai, Hebei. His original family home was located in Shanxi and he grew up in Beijing. He worked in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia for 7 years, then went to Beijing in 1975. In 1977, he was enrolled into the Institute of Archaeology of t
Marriage and Literati Women in， the Song Dynasty
TAO Jing-shen was born in mainland China and moved to Taiwan in 1949. His father Tao Hsi-sheng was a major scholar-politician. Tao got his bachelor and master’s degree at Taiwan University, and obtained PhD at University of Arizona, majoring in History. H
New Archeological Finds of the 20th Century
ZHANG Guangda graduated from the Department of History, Peking University in 1953. He served as teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor and professor at the Department of History until his retirement in 1989. During his working period, ZHANG has
History of Time, History of Space
ZHU Weizheng (1936-2012) graduated at Fudan University and stayed there as Professor of History, specializing in Chinese ancient history. He published monographs and many articles on Chinese cultural history, Chinese intellectual history, and Chinese Conf
Huizhou Merchants and Shaolin Martial Art
WANG Zhenzhong was born in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. He was admitted to the Department of History of Fudan University in 1982, then entered the Institute of Chinese Historical Geography and received his PhD in 1992. Since 1998, he has been a professor
Did the Zheng He Fleet Go To America? -- Maps in the Study of Zheng He
HUANG Shijian （1935-2013）was born in Shanghai, and came from a scholarly family that has officials for generations. He was a famous historian of Sino-Western relations. He graduated from the History Department of Peking University in 1958. From 1958 to 19
The Masterworks of a Capital: Changan in Han and Tang Dynasties
TANG Xiaofeng studied archaeology in the Department of History, and received a master’s degree in the Department of Geography (Historical Geography) at Peking University. He obtained his PhD in Human Geography from the Department of Geography at Syracuse
Cultural Exchange between East-West in Dunhuang in Tang Dynasty
RONG Xinjiang finished his bachelor degree at Department of History, Peking University. While pursuing a master’s degree at Peking University, he studied at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1984-85. RONG is a Chinese hist
Emperor Qin's Mausoleum and the Terracotta Army
JIAO Nanfeng graduated from Northwest University, China, in 1982, and then worked at the Shanxi Archaeology Institute. He had served as President of the Institute from 2001 to 2009, and as an elected executive member of the council of the Chinese Archaeol
The Study on the Silks Found in Tubo
HUO Wei was born in Chengdu in 1957. He graduated from the Department of History, Sichuan University, majoring in archaeology. He was the former Director of the China Tibetology Research Institute, and visiting researcher at the Chinese Civilization Resea