BrainTeasers: Main Chinese speakers Profiles from my educational videos

I realized that I may have to include the profiles of the same speakers in multiple posts so I decided to summaries the main Chinese speakers that I liked and used their educational videos to translate to English for the English audience who are unfamiliar with Mandarin. Since their videos are so interesting and our unique chinese form of wisdom and thinking. These are the three main chinese speakers that I liked:

• Yi Zhong Tian (易中天)
• Yu Dan (于丹)
• Zeng Shi Qiang (曾仕強)

He has limited videos that I think are suitable for me to put into this blog but I thinks he is a good speaker. Those interested can take a look at his videos from the "Lecture Room series". Think all are in Mandarin. 

— Dickson Idlier

Pictture from https://new.qq.com/omn/20191026/20191026A0KNWX00.html

Yi Zhongtian 易中天 (born 8 February 1947) is a Chinese writer and historian. He is also a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Xiamen University's School of Humanities. — Extracted from Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Zhongtian)

CCTV-10 Lecture Room series:

• Han Dai Fengyun Renwu (汉代风云人物; Prominent Personalities of the Han Dynasty)
• Pin San Guo (品三国; Analysis of the Three Kingdoms)
• Xian Qin Zhuzi Baijia Zhengming (先秦诸子百家争鸣; The Hundred Schools of Thought Before the Qin Dynasty)

Regardless of the criticisms, her popularity shows her talks are pretty well received by all. Even I am interested to her talks as it is pretty educational to me at least. You may see more of her in the "Lecture Room series" and other chinese talkshows. 

— Dickson Idlier

Pictture from https://www.nautiljon.com/people/yu+dan.html

Yu Dan (Chinese: 于丹; pinyin: Yú Dān, born June 28, 1965) is professor of media studies at China's Beijing Normal University. She is also assistant to the Dean, Faculty of Arts & Media, as well as the Department Chair of the Film & Television Media Department. —Extracted from Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Dan_(academic))

In late 2006, a series of her lectures entitled "Yu Dan's Insights into the Analects" (于丹《论语》心得) was broadcast for seven days on China Central Television (CCTV) as part of the Lecture Room (《百家讲坛》) program. The transcript, edited into a book, sold 10,000 copies within the first day of release. Within 40 days, sales exceeded 1.5 million. By September 2007, the book has sold 4.2 million legal copies and an estimated 6 million pirated ones since its publication in December and remains on best-seller lists. It has been published in English under the more literally translated title Confucius from the Heart. In the Spring Festival period of 2007, another series of her lectures "Yu Dan's Insights into Zhuangzi" (于丹《庄子》心得) was broadcast to much acclaim. The transcript "Yu Dan's Notes on Zhuangzi" sold 15,000 copies on its first day of release on March 3. Crowds of people lined up outside the Zhongguancun Xinhua bookstore, waiting as many as eight hours in the rain, just to get Yu Dan's autograph.

Yu managed to become a household name in China because she abridged the works of Confucius (551-479 B.C.) and Zhuangzi (369-286 B.C.) to make it appear relevant to laymen with "colloquial re-wordings and vivid short stories". In an interview with New York Times, Yu attributed the popularity of her work to the stresses of life in the fast-changing nation and to historical factors (paraphrased): "Traditional thought has been criticized for so many years that there is genuine interest in rediscovering it." On the Baidu (《百度》) portal alone, there are over 20,000 posts on the "bulletin board" named after her. "White collar workers, college students, professors, migrant workers, community guards and retired grannies all had something to say."

Christian Caryl, writing in Hong Kong's Muse Magazine, has criticised Yu's book Confucius from the heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World: 'New-Agers in the West have made an industry out of freeze-drying non-Western religions until they're tasteless enough for the indiscriminate modern palate. Yu's book is the first time I've seen a non-Westerner up to the same sort of thing.'

This speaker is the best speaker that I liked. Very knowledgeable speaker but due to the depth of the topics (i-Ching, Tao Te Ching,etc) that he is appears on, meaning multiple videos or videos that are too long, it is difficult for me to find suitable videos from him to put into this blog. Maybe will do it when I feel like going into depth for i-ching (book of change) when my interest for it is high enough. 

— Dickson Idlier

Picture from https://www.sohu.com/a/345075459_483111

Zeng Shiqiang (Chinese: 曾仕強; 28 August 1934 – 11 November 2018) was a Chinese-born Taiwanese sinologist best known for studying I Ching, the oldest of the Chinese classics. Zeng is acclaimed as having been the "Father of the Chinese Style of Management". He served as president of Hsing Kuo University of Management (HKU) and professor at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). —Extracted from Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeng_Shiqiang)

Works:

• The Characteristics of Chinese Culture. Shaanxi Normal University General Publishing House Co.Ltd. 2011. ISBN 9787561352830.
• Insight into the Mysteries of the I Ching: Book of Management Wisdom. Peking University Press. 1991. ISBN 9787301080870.
• 《易经的智慧合集》 [Wisdom of I Ching] (in Chinese). Democracy and Construction Publishing House. 2016. ISBN 9787513910699.
• 《易经的奥秘》 [Mysteries of the I Ching] (in Chinese). Beijing Time Chinese Bookstore. 2017. ISBN 9787569915150.
• 《曾仕强详解道德经：德经》 (in Chinese). Democracy and Construction Publishing House. 2016. ISBN 9787513911214.
• 《曾仕强评胡雪岩》 (in Chinese). Shaanxi Normal University Press. 2012. ISBN 9787561363096.
• 《人际的奥秘--曾仕强告诉你如何搞好人际关系》 (in Chinese). Beijing United Publishing Company. 2015. ISBN 9787550237872.
• 《曾仕强点评三国之道：论三国智慧》 (in Chinese). Shaanxi Normal University Press. 2010. ISBN 9787561353899.
• 《情绪的奥秘》 (in Chinese). Beijing United Publishing Company. 2014. ISBN 9787550233393.
• 《曾国藩的启示》 (in Chinese). Beijing United Publishing Company. 2014. ISBN 9787550223714.
• 《为政之道》 (in Chinese). Taiwan Publishing House. 2016. ISBN 9787516810859.
• 《大道至简》 (in Chinese). Guangdong Economic Publishing House Co., Ltd. 2018. ISBN 9787545461053.
• 《曾仕强教授告诉你怎样带团队》 (in Chinese). Beijing United Publishing Company. 2017. ISBN 9787550293557.
• 《中国式思维》 (in Chinese). Beijing United Publishing Company. 2017. ISBN 9787550289086.
• 《中国式管理》 (in Chinese). Beijing United Publishing Company. 2015. ISBN 9787550254411.
• 《孝经：中国式家庭关系》 (in Chinese). Guangdong Economic Publishing House Co., Ltd. 2018. ISBN 9787545460605.
• 《圆通的人际关系》 (in Chinese). Peking University Press. 2008. ISBN 9787301134061.
• 《老子的人生智慧》 (in Chinese). Guangdong Economic Publishing House Co., Ltd. 2016. ISBN 9787545445398.
• 《坤道：中国女人的修养》 (in Chinese). Guangdong Economic Publishing House Co., Ltd. 2018. ISBN 9787545460247.