[114] History Department Professor Chao Will Speak Sept. 27 During MTSU Honors Lecture

Release date: Sept. 24, 2010

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History Department Professor Chao Will Speak
Sept. 27 During MTSU Honors Lecture


(MURFREESBORO) — Dr. Yuan-Ling Chao, associate professor in MTSU’s history department, will present “Confucianism and the Scientific Tradition in China” Monday, Sept. 27, starting at 3 p.m. as part of the fall 2010 Honors Lecture Series at MTSU.
The nearly one-hour lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the amphitheater (Room 106) of the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building.
The fall series is titled “China: The Middle Kingdom in the Modern World.”
Chao’s teaching fields include China, Japan, world history and the history of medicine, according to the history department’s staff entry, which adds that her research interests include the history of Chinese medicine and the comparative study of the history of medicine.
Chao has been an MTSU faculty member since 1995. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1981 from Hong Kong Baptist College, her Master of Arts in 1983 from the University of California-Santa Barbara and her Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of California-Los Angeles.
The Confucius Institute at MTSU cosponsors this fall’s Honors Lecture Series.
For more information about the lecture series or the University Honors College, call 615-898-2152 or visit mtsu.edu/honors/ online.
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