China Seminar

Philip Tzann-Yeu Wang

Philip Tzann-Yeu Wang

13 April 2006

Chinese History Education in the Internet Age

A Chinese saying goes that if the right hand holds a book, the left ought to hold relevant graphics. Philip T. Y. Wang will help the China Seminar visualize, through digitally lively maps, two sets of events in Chinese history: 1. The Battle of Gaixia which won for Liu Bang the throne of Han China in 206 B.C. and was rhapsodized in the opera “Farewell My Concubine,” in which Xiang Yu of Chu bid farewell to his love after losing the battle; 2.