Transcript Slide 1

Xian Wu 吴 宪
April 10, 2015
India
Burma
Thailand
Vietnam
Mongolia
Russia
Korea
Japan
etc.
PRC Flag
PRC
Emblem
Running from
West to East
Yangtze River
6300 Kilometers
Yellow River
5500 Kilometers
Wild West
To be developed
4 Major
Basins
(Sichuan
Basin)
Three Major
Plains
all in the east
part of China
Grand Canal 京杭运河 (created in
605-618 from North to South) 1800
Kilometers from Beijing to Hangzhou
Railway system
Legendary Heroes (Mythology)
Da Yu
& Gun
Descendants
of 炎黄
Huangdi
& Yandi
3000-2000BC
大禹
和鲧
Taming
flood
20701600BC
Confucius had
3000 students,
72 were notable
“三人行，必有我师”
“不耻下问”
“论语”Analects
compiled by his
students
In 506BC Wu State
with 30,000 soldiers
won the battle
against Chu State
with 200, 000
soldiers.
孙武《孙子兵法》
屈原：《离骚》immortal masterpiece
Drowned himself in Milo River in Hunan
秦始皇 from 230-221 BC
succeeded in annexing
six other states, and
established a centralized
feudal government. 车同
轨，书同文。
司马迁：《史记》
was written in prison.
It took him 13 years
to finish it. The set
was of 130 volumes.
He was arguing for
one of the generals,
and was imprisoned
for this.
毕昇 Bi Sheng (9901051) father of blockletter (movable type)
printing with clay-made
pieces of characters.
蔡伦Cai Lun（63－121）inspired
by silk processing procedure,
experimented with barks of trees,
rope ends & rags to make paper.
八個主要方位如下：
In the year 132，Zhang Heng invented a
seismograph 候風地動儀 to detect the
earthquake area.
Cross-Country Collaboration
张骞(195-114BC?) Zhang Qian answered the call from the emperor,
leading a group of 100 people to start a journey to the Western
Regions in 138BC. Thus began the official exchanges between China
and countries in central and west Asia.
Xuan Zang 玄奘 in 627 went to
India to study Buddhism for 15
years. He came back with many
volumes of scriptures.
Monk Jian
Zhen鉴真
(688-763)
was invited
to preach
in Japan in
642. He
made 11
attempts,
but failed.
In 753
when he
was blind
& 66 years
old, he got
into Japan.
In 641 the 18 year old Tufan leader Songtsam Gambo in Tibet
married Princess Wen Cheng, daughter of Chinese emperor in
Tang Dynasty. Han and Tibetans thus tied knots.
Sun married Song
Qing Ling around 1915
March 1945,
he was 57
years old.
Jiang married Song Mei
Ling in Dec. 1927
Mao announced the
founding of PRC in 1949
Deng led the economic reform starting
in late 1970s. 白猫黑猫说 White and
Black Cats Theory
What you see provides you much food for your thought.
What you see provides you much food for your thought.
One of the best
universities in China
Si Chuan – a heavenly state
Chengdu – a city of paradise
杜甫草堂：in the year 759 when he was in exile in
Chengdu, he wrote collections of poems in this
thatched cottage. “朱门酒肉臭，路有冻死骨”。