{"id":880,"date":"2020-08-21T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/chs\/?page_id=880"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:06:53","slug":"wu-teh-yao-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cs\/wu-teh-yao-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\tWu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures\n\t<\/h2>\n\tThe Wu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures, funded by the Wu Teh Yao Memorial Fund that was established by\u00a0his family, friends and well-wishers,\u00a0serve to commemorate Professor Wu Teh Yao (1917-1994), an educator, political scientist, specialist in Confucianism and original drafter of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He held various academic positions, such as President of Tunghai University in Taiwan and\u00a0Director of the Institute of East Asian Philosophies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), which later became the former Institute of East Asian Political Economy and is now known as the East Asian Institute.\n

Now held biannually, it has offered many distinguished Sinologists the opportunity to deliver public lectures in Singapore, thereby promoting Chinese culture as Professor Wu once did. Since the very first lecture in 1995 by Professor Tu Wei-ming of Harvard University, a total of 23 outstanding scholars have delivered lectures as part of this lecture series. Some of the earlier lectures have been published as essays compiled in “Confucianism, Chinese History and Society” and “\u6c49\u5b66\u540d\u5bb6\u8bba\u96c6\uff1a\u5434\u5fb7\u8000\u6587\u5316\u8bb2\u5ea7\u6f14\u8bb2\u5f55”.<\/p>\n\t

Wu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures (since 2011)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nTopic \/ Lecturer<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
13 December 2025<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lecture 2025<\/a>
\nWhy China Cannot Isolate Itself: The Relationship between the Chinese Economy and Foreign Trade Through the Lens of Global History (\u4e3a\u4ec0\u4e48\u4e2d\u56fd\u79bb\u4e0d\u5f00\u4e16\u754c–\u5168\u7403\u53f2\u89c6\u91ce\u4e2d\u7684\u4e2d\u56fd\u7ecf\u6d4e\u548c\u5916\u8d38\u4e4b\u95f4\u7684\u5173\u7cfb)
\nSpeaker: Prof Li Bozhong, Chair Professor of Humanities, Peking University
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre and SPH Media)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 January 2024<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lecture 2024<\/a>
\nThe Politics, Culture and Aesthetics of Voice: Speech in Modern China (\u58f0\u97f3\u7684\u653f\u6cbb\u4e0e\u7f8e\u5b66–\u73b0\u4ee3\u4e2d\u56fd\u6f14\u8bf4\u5bb6\u7684\u7406\u8bba\u4e0e\u5b9e\u8df5)
\nSpeaker: Prof Chen Pingyuan, Boya Chair Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre and SPH Media)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19 March 2022<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lecture (Online) 2022<\/a>
\nContouring the World in Qing Dynasty Women Novelists’ Imagination (\u5357\u56fd\u624d\u5973\u7684\u5929\u4e0b\u68a6–\u6e05\u4ee3\u5973\u6027\u5c0f\u8bf4\u4e2d\u7684\u56fd\u5bb6\u4e0e\u4e16\u754c)
\nSpeaker: Prof Hu Siao-chen, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre, Lianhe Zaobao and Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5 March 2022<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lecture (Online) 2022<\/a>
\n“Dangers” and “Opportunities” in Contemporary Chinese: Perspectives from Social, Cultural, and Applied Linguistics (\u5f53\u4ee3\u4e2d\u6587\u7684”\u5371”\u4e0e”\u673a”\uff1a \u793e\u4f1a\u3001\u6587\u5316\u53ca\u5e94\u7528\u8bed\u8a00\u5b66\u7684\u900f\u89c6)
\nSpeaker: Prof Tao Hongyin, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre, Lianhe Zaobao and Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19 October 2019<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lecture 2019<\/a>
\nHistory Through Literature – The “feng<\/em>” of Nanyang and “tu<\/em>” of Singapore (\u5357\u6d0b\u7684”\u98ce” \u661f\u6d32\u7684”\u571f” \u4ece\u6587\u5b66\u770b\u5386\u53f2)
\nSpeaker: Prof David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre and Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18 Nov 2017<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lecture 2017
\nProspect Garden Revisited (\u91cd\u6e38\u5927\u89c2\u56ed)
\nSpeaker: Professor John Minford, Emeritus Professor of Chinese, The Australian National University, and Sin Wai Kin Distinguished Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS and Lianhe Zaobao)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05 Sept 2015<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lecture 2015
\nInternet Literature and Publishing Reform in China (\u7f51\u7edc\u6587\u5b66\u4e0e\u4e2d\u56fd\u7684\u51fa\u7248\u6539\u9769)
\nSpeaker: Professor Michel Hockx, SOAS China Institute, SOAS, University of London
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS and Lianhe Zaobao)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 Aug 2013<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures 2013 Chinese Lecture
\n\u65b0\u52a0\u5761\u300a\u77f3\u5934\u8bb0\u300b\uff1a\u4ece\u77f3\u7891\u89e3\u8bfb\u4e1c\u5357\u4e9a\u534e\u4eba\u5e99\u5b87\u8de8\u56fd\u7f51\u7edc
\nSpeaker: Professor Kenneth Dean, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University, and Visiting Professor, Department of Chinese Studies and Asia Research Institute, NUS
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS and Lianhe Zaobao)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 Jul 2013<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures 2013 English Lecture
\nThe Story of the Stones
\nSpeaker: Professor Kenneth Dean, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University, and Visiting Professor, Department of Chinese Studies and Asia Research Institute, NUS
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS and Lianhe Zaobao)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 Aug 2011<\/td>\nWu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures 2011 Chinese Lecture
\nPower of Ideas: Some Intellectual Consequences of 1911 Revolution (\u8f9b\u4ea5\u9769\u547d\u5728\u601d\u60f3\u53f2\u4e0a\u7684\u610f\u4e49)
\nSpeaker: Professor Wang Fansen, Vice President, Academia Sinica
\n(Jointly organised by Department of Chinese Studies, NUS and Lianhe Zaobao)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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