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| Welcome to the Fall 2006 Faculty Seminar. Chinese cultures are very abundant, broad, and primordial. Although they are quite distinct from the westerns cultures, the entire human beings have benefited from them from the Chinese ancient inventions (compass, paper, printing, and firework powder), delicious food to educational Confucianism. The sixteen presentations here can only be introductions to Chinese cultures. Even so, there are still numerous aspects of Chinese cultures that we don’t have time to cover, for example, Chinese operas, Fengshui, literatures, …For the abstract of each presentation and the bibliographical sketch of each presenter, please click on the title from the following list. We look forward to seeing you at the Seminar. | ||||
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| August 23, 2006 | Chinese Language, Civilization and its Geographic Base | Guy Alitto |
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| August 30, 2006 | 21st century's China: View of a New Chinese American | Sherman Zhang University of Chicago Hospital |
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| September 6, 2006 | China in American Minds | Xilao Li Harper College |
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| September 13, 2006 | Understand the Culture Differences between China and America in a Structural Way | Jin Guo Governors State University |
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| September 20, 2006 | Confucianism | Xiaosi Yang Harold Washington College |
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| September 27, 2006 | Legalism, Daoism and Buddhism in China | Douglas Berger Southern Illinois University |
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| October 4, 2006 | Taichi and Health | Jin Guo Governors State University |
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| October 11, 2006 | Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) | Guanyuan Jin International Institute of Holistic Medicine |
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| October 18, 2006 | Traditional theme of Chinese brush painting | Qigu
Jiang School of Art Institute of Chicago |
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| October 25, 2006 | Chinese Vocal Music | Hong Wei Dong Fang Performing Arts |
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| November 1, 2006 | History of Chinese Music Instruments -- a 3000-year Legend | Yunqing Pan University of Illinois at Chicago |
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| November 8, 2006 | Classical Chinese Architecture | Guanghua Liu, Prof. Emeritus
Southeast University, China |
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| November 15, 2006 | Brief Overview of Chinese History (221BC-1978) | Lihua Yu College of Lake County |
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| November 22, 2006 | Chinese Cooking | Tony Hu Lao Szechuan Restaurants |
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| November 29, 2006 | Science in Shi Jing | Manyuan Long University of Chicago |
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| December 6, 2006 | Salient Features of Han Script | Chuang Tan | ||
