Beyond1984
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
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 Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:50 am Post subject: Free Ivy League lectures are increasingly popular in China. |
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Professor Kagan, of Yale, teaches "Philosophy 176 - Death"  and
"Several hundred thousand [!] Chinese have begun following Kagan's sometimes abstruse classes since Netease, one of China's largeset web portals, posted them last October...." 
Netease "calls on an army of volunteer translators around the world, and some professionals, to sub-title the lectures in Chinese."
Douban, "a website popular with young [Chinese] intellectuals" hosts a discussion group called "Get Up Early in the Morning and Take an Online Course Each Day." 
Full story here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/1231/Digital-Confucius-introduces-Chinese-students-to-liberal-arts-at-Yale-and-beyond
-HDT
As I have written some time ago on another thread, the diligent student may also improve himself by reading Homer or Aeschylus in the Greek, without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, when consecrating morning hours to their pages.  |
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