Dear Friends, Colleagues & the General Public,
I am pleased to announce the Inaugural Lecture Series of an exciting new school that was founded by Princeton graduate (Ph.D., East Asian Studies) Dr Maggie Chiang as of May 2022.
The school is the Hua-hsing School of Traditional Chinese Culture.
Dr Maggie Chiang will offer the Inaugural Lecture Series next year.
The school would like to invite all the public to register early for the course. The course offers all learners, especially all adults beginning at the level of intermediate and advanced (upper class undergraduates and beyond), a new perspective upon Chinese civilization.
In this second part of the earlier lecture series, the question of what happened to the royal and shaman lines of Far Antiquity is approached through the perspective of a veiled tradition. From the time that Han founder defeated the Qin dynasty, a major question posed for China is how China could continue under the protection of ancestral Heaven, when Han foundation seems to be tied mainly to Zhou feudal lord system. Although the traditional concept of the Three Dynasties, Xia, Yin Shang and Zhou is that the last continues the earlier models, as noted in the earlier lecture series, Zhou worldview represents a great change; in order for Zhou center of China to gain its greatest protection, it must find ways to link to Yin Shang and beyond. Where then can China turn, in the situation where a new dynasty, Han, has little ties to that Far Antiquity world? This second part of the lecture series considers how to understand Chinese history and civilization, from the way that even as the actual ruler, a crowned king of Zhou world, presides over China, the uncrowned lines of Far Antiquity’s royal and shaman traditions carry forth, guard and teach the Chinese and even beyond how to continue forward in the most dignified, humane, and compassionate ways.