Yu Dan

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  Yu Dan in conversation with Rosie Blau
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  Yu Dan, professor of media studies at Beijing Normal University, is celebrated in China for a series of lectures on Confucius broadcast on China Central Television. Her highly personal interpretation of Confucian thought was rapturously received. Yu Dan's fresh, modern and controversial interpretation of Confucius reveals the wisdom that Confucius has to offer a new generation, showing how it is both highly relevant and very necessary in our complex modern world.
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  Michael - Confucius / Yu Dan Posted 17:02 on 20 April 2009

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  Yu Dan in conversation with Rosie Blau
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  Yu Dan, professor of media studies at Beijing Normal University, is celebrated in China for a series of lectures on Confucius broadcast on China Central Television. Her highly personal interpretation of Confucian thought was rapturously received. Yu Dan's fresh, modern and controversial interpretation of Confucius reveals the wisdom that Confucius has to offer a new generation, showing how it is both highly relevant and very necessary in our complex modern world.

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  Professor Yu Dan at SHKP Book Club seminar in Hong KongSHKP Book Club - News
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  Professor Yu Dan at SHKP Book Club seminar in Hong Kong
  
  SHKP Executive Director Michael Wong (left) presenting a souvenir to Professor Yu Dan.
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  Professor Yu signs autographs for her fans.
  
  Sun Hung Kai Properties' SHKP Book Club is presenting a series of public seminars with noted authors and scholars speaking on reading-related topics.The seminar series starting today (January 12) is jointly organised by the Book Club, Up Publications and MGuru.The first of the series had Professor Yu Dan of the Faculty of Media and Arts at Beijing Normal University speaking on the ‘Philosophy of Life in Chinese Classics' at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.SHKP Executive Director Michael Wong presented a souvenir to Professor Yu at the seminar.
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  Professor Yu is a noted Chinese scholar, and she explained her perception of how people can apply the philosophies from Chinese classics in their daily livers.She also exchanged ideas with the audience about reading.
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  Professor Yu teaches at the Faculty of Media and Arts at Beijing Normal University.She previously hosted the Lecture Room show on CCTV that examined the Analects of Confucius and Zhuangzi, which have been transcribed into Thoughts on the Analects of Confucius and Thoughts on the Analects of Zhuangzi, contributing significantly to Chinese scholarship.

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  Published on: 1/1/2007    Last Visited: 4/30/2007  

  Yu Dan, a media expert and professor at Beijing Normal University, speaks during the Taiwan release of her book of the teachings of Confucius yesterday in Taipei. PHOTO: AP
  
  With her clear, rapid-fire lectures, Yu Dan (¤ ¤¦) has become an instant television celebrity, hawking the moral teachings of a 2,500-year-old philosopher to an audience of millions in China.
  
  Yesterday, Yu, a media expert and Beijing Normal University professor, released the Taiwanese version of her latest book -- a 200-page compilation of lectures she delivered on the Confucian Analects while appearing on China's Central Television last October.
  
  The work has sold some 4 million copies in China, nearly double the number of JK Rowling's Harry Potter books, according to her Chinese publisher.
  
  With her soaring popularity, she is regarded by many as the modern day incarnation of China's most respected philosopher, whose observations developed into a complex social system that dominated Chinese thought until the communist victory in 1949.
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  "We often think classics are too difficult, but as a Chinese, the classics are the origin of our being, works that comfort us in the midst of our bewilderment," Yu said."In this complex world, we seek simplicity out of grandeur, the simple truths that we can find in the pithiness of Confucius' teachings."
  
  Confucius' analects comprise responses the philosopher provided to 72 disciples who toured the countryside with him during the so-called "Warring States Period" -- a time of great political instability.
  
  According to Yu, Confucius answered one disciple's question about the most essential quality a human being can have with a simple one-word answer: Forgiveness.
  
  "Whatever attitude you adopt, you will receive the same quality of forgiveness from others you meet, and you will have a smooth life throughout," she said.
  
  Appearing with Yu in Taipei was Chinese historian Yan Chongnian (ÀF±R¦~), who released two volumes of his own book Sixty years of Ming and Qing Dynasties, recounting the fall of the Ming Dynasty in the second quarter of the 17th century and the rise of the Qing Dynasty over the succeeding decades.

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  Published on: 3/2/2008    Last Visited: 6/24/2009  

  The first seminar held in January this year had renowned scholar Professor Yu Dan from the Faculty of Media and Arts at Beijing Normal University speaking on life philosophy in Chinese classics.

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  Published on: 5/11/2007    Last Visited: 5/11/2007  

  Notes on Reading the Analects, by Yu Dan, a professor at Beijing Normal University, has become China's best-selling book in recent memory, defying critics who say it turns Confucian thought into self-help pulp for the modern age.
  
  "It is good to have these teachings from old times because people are too selfish now," 60-year-old accountant Qu Juan said of the book that has sold over three million copies in four months.
  
  "Everybody cares only about making money after the economic reforms," she said, flipping through the paperback at a book shop.
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  "So be it Buddhism, Christianity or Yu Dan's version of Confucius, people embrace them," said Ms Zha, author of an acclaimed 2006 book of interviews with a dozen Chinese cultural figures.

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  Reserved seats for SHKP Club members at 'Philosophy of Life in the Classics' seminar by Professor Yu Dan
  
  Sun Hung Kai Properties set up the SHKP Book Club to promote reading in the community. The Book Club is presenting a series of public seminars with noted authors and scholars speaking on reading-related topics, beginning with Professor Yu Dan from the Faculty of Media and Arts at Beijing Normal University speaking on the Philosophy of Life in Chinese Classics at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on January 12. Professor Yu is a renowned Chinese scholar in the fields of media and arts, and she hosted the Lecture Room show on CCTV that examined the Analects of Confucius and Zhuangzi, contributing significantly to popularizing traditional Chinese scholarship. The SHKP Club reserved a number of seats for members so that they could learn from Professor Yu's insights.
  
  Professor Yu explained how people could apply the philosophies from Chinese classics in their daily lives and exchanged ideas with the audience about reading.

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  Published on: 11/27/2006    Last Visited: 3/7/2007  

  Professor Yu Dan (于丹)
  
  The Buddha never wrote a book, but gave many speeches to his followers over the time span of several decades, which after his nirvana were compiled into books by his disciples, and the books became known as Buddhist Scriptures.
  
  The Master never wrote a book, but gave many speeches to his followers over the time span of several decades, which after his death were compiled into books by his disciples, and the books became known as Chinese Classics.
  
  Beijing professor Yu Dan also gave many speeches on a TV programs Forum of Hundred Theories (《ç¾å®¶è®²å›ã€‹) to her audience about The Analects (《论语》) over the time span of seven days.
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  And Yu Dan is surely a very popular spokeswoman.She signed 8,000 copies in 8 hours.
  
  As for whether she is a good spokeswoman for Confucius is another matter entirely.Some say not, because she has involved a porcupine in her speech, which renders the Confucius discussion a bit like a Disney show.

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  Published on: 5/1/2007    Last Visited: 5/1/2007  

  Chinese scholar Yu Dan introduces Taiwanese to works of Confucius | Full Story
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  Chinese scholar Yu Dan introduces Taiwanese to works of Confucius2007/5/1By ANNIE HUANG TAIPEI, AP
  
  With her clear, rapid-fire lectures, Yu Dan has become an instant television celebrity, hawking the moral teachings of a 2500-year-old philosopher to an audience of millions in communist China.
  
  On Monday, Yu, a media expert and Beijing Normal University professor, released the Taiwanese version of her latest book -- a 200-page compilation of lectures she delivered on the Confucian Analects while appearing on China's Central Television last October.
  
  The work has sold some 4 million copies on the mainland, nearly double the number of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, according to her Chinese publisher.
  
  Her appearance in Taiwan was part of a growing cultural exchange between the self-governing island and the communist mainland, which split amid civil war in 1949.
  
  With her soaring popularity, she is regarded by many as the modern day incarnation of China's most respected philosopher, whose observations developed into a complex social system that dominated Chinese thought until the communist victory in 1949.
  
  Lin Tsai-chueh, the Taiwanese publisher of Yu's book, said her popularity on the mainland reflected a "classics fever" in China that developed following the gradual dumping of orthodox Marxism in favor of laissez-fair capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s.
  
  "She relates the analects to the day-to-day experience of ordinary Chinese and comforts their souls in the midst of China's big transition," Lin said.
  
  Wearing short, stylish hair with cranberry-colored highlights, the 42-year-old scholar told a packed Taipei auditorium that her main goal was to revive the classical Chinese teachings that as recently as 35 years ago had been anathema in her home country.
  
  "We often think classics are too difficult, but as a Chinese, the classics are the origin of our being, works that comfort us in the midst of our bewilderment," Yu said.
  
  "In this complex world, we seek simplicity out of grandeur, the simple truths that we can find in the pithiness of Confucius' teachings."
  
  Confucius' analects comprise responses the philosopher provided to 72 disciples who toured the countryside with him during the so-called Warring States Period -- a time of great political instability.
  
  According to Yu, Confucius answered one disciple's question about the most essential quality a human being can have with a simple one-word answer: forgiveness.
  
  "Whatever attitude you adopt, you will receive the same quality of forgiveness from others you meet, and you will have a smooth life throughout," she said.
  
  Appearing with Yu in Taipei was Chinese historian Yen Tsongnian, who released two volumes of his own book, "Sixty years of Ming and Qing Dynasties," recounting the fall of the Ming in the second quarter of the 17th century and the rise of the Qing over the succeeding decades.

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  Sun Hung Kai Properties established the SHKP Book Club to promote reading in the community, a series of seminars with noted authors and scholars speaking on reading-related topics are held in January and March this year with Professor Yu Dan, Joseph Sung and Ho Hoi Lam.

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