Center for East Asian Studies
Kansas Asia Scholars
Kansas Committee for International Education in the Schools
Kansas Consortium for Teaching About Asia
East Asian Languages and Cultures
East Asian Library
KU Edwards Campus
The Confucius Institute draws on the extensive resources of the University of Kansas and works with a variety of public and private entities to offer timely, effective, and stimulating programs.
Monday, April 9, 2007 7:30 PM |
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Over the millennia, Chinese wisdom has led to a number of important discoveries well ahead of Western developments, such as printing, the compass, and gunpowder. Today, China is set once again to become a major player in the world. Studying China and learning from some of its fundamental concepts is therefore an endeavor of growing importance. |
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The Chinese language offers the opportunity to approach the world from a completely different consciousness matrix. |
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The worldview underlying Chinese medicine focuses on the concept of qi or cosmic energy. Today increasingly acknowledged in science and frequently called bioelectricity or biomagnetic force, qi is key to understanding the human body as a complex network of vibrating energetic pathways and leads to a completely new approach to healing, wellness, and ecology. |
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The Confucian vision of a harmonious society is one sustained not primarily by laws and punishments but by a shared inner sense of propriety and basic human decency. |
Dr. Livia Kohn’s specialty is the study of Daoist religion and Chinese long life practices. She has written and edited over twenty books in this field. After graduating from Bonn University, Germany and spending six years doing research at Kyoto University in Japan, she joined Boston University as Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies. She has also been visiting professor and adjunct faculty at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, the Stanford Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, and San Francisco State University.
The Confucius Institute and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute presented a three-week seminar on modern China on Tuesday evenings in Rm.110 of the Regents Center, from 7:00 to 9:00pm, March 20 and 27 and April 3, 2007. The three part series covered China's educational system, Buddhist and Daoist influences on Chinese art, and social, economic, and cultural changes of the past two decades in China. For more information on this event, see the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute page on Globalization: Edwards Campus World Tour Series: China.
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