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YADA ACADEMY

Yada Academy is a key cultural facility of Yixing Yada Yangxian Xishan Town. It advocates the cultural concept of virtue and liberality, the leading, abundant and time-honored Jiangnan Culture, as well as the life aesthetics. So far, the Culture & Art Center, Life Bookstore and several life classrooms have been completed and put into use.

Yada Academy Lecture & Talk

Yixing locates at the heart area of southern China. Jiangnan Culture there is the core of Chinese Culture. With the aspiration of spreading Jiangnan Culture and gathering talented elites all over the world who devote themselves to carry forward Jiangnan Culture, Yada Academy launches a series cultural activity – Yada Academy Lectures & Talks. It embodies deep essence of culture in relaxed daily life talks rather than in big empty words.

1st Lecture & Talk

The first activity was held by Mr. Ge Fei, famous writer, professor and doctoral supervisor of Chinese Language and Literature Department at Tsinghua University as well as winner of Mao Dun Literature Awards. He was invited to give a lecture on “Geographical Jiangnan and Cultural Jiangnan”. Mr. Ge Fei, born in the south region of the Yangtze River, was well-known for his “Jiangnan Trilogy”. The great work on Jiangnan Culture has been honored as “the new century’s substantial Chinese original work which displays China’s inner spirit evolution in a hundred years”.
Annual Special Lecture

The latest program – Yada Academy Annual Special Lecture – will invite one distinguished person to give a significant speech every year. In 2019, it invited the economist Dr. Qiu Xiaohua to make a speech named “China’s Economy under World’s Thorough Changes - Glancing Back at 2019 and Looking into 2020”. Dr. Qiu Xiaohua is one of the senior experts in the field of economic reform and development. He has published many books and been honored as Mr. Data of China with high reputation in China’s macro economy and comprehensive statistics.
2nd Lecture & Talk

2nd Yada Academy Lecture & Talk was held by Mr. Ye Zhaoyan, the well-known author and Vice President of Jiangsu Writers’ Association. He gave a speech named The City Nanjing. Mr. Ye Zhaoyan was born in Nanjing. His grandfather Mr. Ye Shengtao is an author and educator. Influenced by Jiangnan Culture during childhood, Mr. Ye Zhaoyan had his own unique cognition and understanding on Nanjing city. In his lecture that day, he combed Nanjing’s history from Three Kingdoms period to the Republic of China and from the city name revolution to the urban system transition.

3rd Lecture & Talk

The 3rd Yada Academy Lecture& Talk was held by Mr. Zhu Xuedong, the writer and senior media professional. He gave a lecture on the topic “Travel Thousands of Miles a Lifetime, Read Rolls of Books describing Jiangnan”. Mr. Zhu Xuedong served as the chief editor of China Week & Southern Reviews and was the author of Old News Archive of Jiangnan, Golden Sky and Mr. Zhu’s Causerie. As the original country folk of Wujin, he has deep feelings for Jiangnan Culture.
Annual Special Lecture

On May 30th 2020, Yada Academy successfully held Special Lecture “Origin and Soul of Jiangnan Culture”. Mr. Zhang Jianhua, China’s famous writer, calligrapher and Chairman of Jiangsu Provincial Literary Federation shared his understanding on Jiangnan Culture. Born in Yixing, Mr. Zhang Jianhua specially interpreted Yangxian culture of Jiangnan culture with seven words, namely Beauty, Harmony, Righteousness, Kindness, Diligence, Wealth and Cultivation.
4th Lecture & Talk

4th Yada Academy Lecture & Talk was held by associate professor of Jiangnan University Dr. Huang Xiaodan on Poetry to Life Aesthetics.Taking poetry by Mr. Tao Yuanming, Mr. Yanshu, Mr. Su Dongpo as example, Ms. Huang shared her feelings and resonance during reading ancient poetry with hundreds of audience. In her opinion, we can find description reflecting daily joy, grief, depression and anxiety in ancient poetry. Those verses handed down for centuries guided us like a fatherly figure or an intimate friend through empathy to share joy, to liberate ourselves and to relax our nerves.

5th Lecture & Talk

The 5th Lecture & Talk was held by the chief editor of DUKU Mr. Zhang Lixian to make a lecture with the theme of “only a wise man puts in lots of efforts”.He shared feelings and experiences on book publishing for years. Regarding to the increasing emphasis on the publishing of popular science books in recent years, he considered it came from his understanding on the current situation of publishing surplus humanity but insufficient science.Inspiration came from the effect of comprehensive factors involving the progress in industry, science and society.
6th Lecture & Talk

On the evening of October 24th, 6th Yada Academy Lecture & Talk was held at Yada Yangxian Xishan Life Bookstore. The well-known cultural scholar Ms. Yu Dan had a lively exchange with more than two hundred audience from Yangtze River Delta on the theme of “Jiangnan, being an attitude to life” on the Double Ninth Festival eve.
7th Lecture & Talk

On the afternoon of November 21st, the 7th Yada Academy Lecture& Talk was held at the Life Bookstore of Yada Yangxian Xishan. Well-known writer Mr. Mai Jia shared his life experience and literature course with nearly two hundred audience under the theme of Literature in Daily Life.

Year-end Special Lecture

On December 26th, Yada Academy Year-end Special Lecture was held at Yixing Yada Art & Culture Center. Famous economist Dr. Qiu Xiaohua, based on macroeconomics, explained and analyzed China’s economy in all directions with the theme of “Waiting for Blooms in Spring after Winter – Review and Outlook of China’s Economy” to summarize 2020 and forecast 2021.
8th Lecture & Talk

8th Yada Academy Lecture & Talk was held at Life Bookstore of Yada Yangxian Xishan. The famous painter Mr. Yang Mingyi recalled his experience in painting of 60 years under the theme of “Draw Jiangnan for A Lifetime”. He explained “what to paint” and “how to paint”, and expressed his deep affection to the water town in the south of the lower reaches of Yangtze River Delta (Jiangnan).
1st Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program

1st Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program was held jointly by Yada Academy, Shanghai Translation Publishing House and Archipel Press with the theme of “Memory, Writing, Nostalgia, a Sharing Session on the film Understanding Alistair Macleod and the novel No Great Mischief at the lecture hall of Yada Academy.The publisher of Archipel Press and the special planner of No Great Mischief Mr. Peng Lun introduced the film and how Macleod created the novel.

2nd Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program

On the afternoon of June 11th, 2nd Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program under the theme of “Yangxian Custom and Dragon Boat Festival Convention – Yangxian Custom Notes by Zhou Chu Reading Session” was successfully held at Yada Life Bookstore of Yada Yangxian Xishan. Mr. Xu Jianyan, the folklorist of Yixing, as the leading reader of this event, introduced the humanity history and Dragon Boat Festival convention in Yixing based on Yangxian Custom Notes by Mr. Zhou Chu. Custom Notes is the earliest book on local climate and other natural phenomena of a season with profound impact.
Special Lecture

On the afternoon of July 3rd, Yada Academy Special Lecture was held at the Culture & Art Center of Yada Yangxian Xishan. Mr. Bai Yansheng, the former CCTV host and the spokesman of Chinese TV Traditional Opera, gave a speech themed Aesthetics Lights up the Life. He firstly talked about his deep friendship with the academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering Mr. Cheng Tianmin who was born in Yixing. Then, he shared some details of life from his 30-years career, and analyzed the current aesthetics flaw from the aspects of commodity packaging, architecture design, photography and poster.
3rd Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program

On the afternoon of July 29th, 3rd Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program jointly organized by Yada Academy and Human Resources & Administration Department was held at Yada Life Bookstore of Yada Yangxian Xishan. The activity invited the champion in three Paralympic Games Ms. Tan Yanhua to lead reading You Will Be Certain to Thank the Hell-bent Yourself in the Future by Ms. Chen Bai, and share her story behind the Paralympic Games champion and her Olympic Spirit.

9th Lecture & Talk

On the afternoon of July 17th, 9th Yada Academy Lecture & Talk was held at the Life Bookstore of Yada Yangxian Xishan. The senior media writer Mr. Zhu Xuedong shared his journey in the search of delicious food and his understanding on diet and lifestyle under the theme of “Real Life in Worldly Ways”.
4th Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program

On the afternoon of August 12th, 4th Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program was held at Yada Life Bookstore of Yada Yangxian Xishan. The Event invited Mr. Duan Shunqi, the Chinese Cooking Master, a senior technician and the executive chef of Yada Yangxian Xishan, to share his understanding on the book The People’s Diet of Mr. Zhu Xuedong with the theme of Flavor of Home Cooking at Yangxian Xishan.
5th Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program

On the afternoon of September 15th, the 5th Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program with the theme of “Dongpo Pavilion Gathering for Appreciating the Mid-autumn Moon in Poetry” was held at Dongpo Pavilion of Yangxian Xishan. This Activity invited Ms. Ma Xiao, one of the Project’s residents, around the theme of poetry of Tang Dynasty related to the festival and in particular the poem “Prelude to Water Melody” by Su Dongpo, shared her own explanation, delivering the fascinating artistic conception.

10th Lecture & Talk

On the afternoon of September 19th, 10th Yada Academy Lecture & Talk was held at Yada Culture & Art Center of Yada Yangxian Xishan. Guqin artist Ms. Wu Na brought a Guqin Art Feast for an audience of more than 300 under the theme of “Mind of Qin” by live performance and interactive lecture and talk.
11th Lecture & Talk

On October 23rd, the 11th Yada Academy Lecture & Talk with the theme of “When Travel Has Become Songs” was held at Yada Life Bookstore of Yada Yangxian Xishan. The singer Mr. Lao Lang shared his travel experience and music life with more than 200 audience.
Themed Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program

On the afternoon of April 24th 2022, the first anniversary of Xishan Reading Leaders Program theme lecture was held at Yada Theater. Mr. Yang Kui, co-founder of Yada Academy and the Writer, told Stories behind Yangxian Xishan Horizontal Inscribed Boards by live streaming.

12th Lecture & Talk

On the afternoon of June 3rd, the 12th Session of Yada Academy Lectures & Talks with the theme of “Chatting Lady White Snake on Dragon Boat Festival” was held at the Lecture Hall of Yada Academy at Yangxian Xishan. Mr. Kong Jie, TV producer, director and host, gave a vividly lecture on Lady White Snake’s story based on the origin and development of the legend.
6th Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program

On the afternoon of August 25th, 6th Session of Xishan Leading Reader Program themed “Quest of Pottery – The Past and Present Life of Purple Sand” was held at Life Bookstore of Yada Academy in Yada Yangxian Xishan. The resident of Yangxian Xishan Lake Community and the scholar of Yixing purple sand mineral resources research Mr. Li Hongyuan shared his knowledge on Yixing purple sand mineral resources and had an exchange with the audience.
Xishan Leading Reader Program - 2023

On the morning of March 6th, the first session of Xishan Leading Reader Program in 2023 spring was held at Yada Academy Life Bookstore of Yada Yangxian Xishan. The Lecture was with the theme of “Dongpo Pottery Pot and Gongchun Kneading Sand”. Curator of China Purple Sands Museum and Yixing Ceramics Museum Mr. Zhou Xiaodong gave a profound explanation in simple language on the historical development of Yixing ceramics.

13rd Lecture & Talk

On the afternoon of April 16th, the 13th Session of Yada Academy Lectures and Talks was held at Yada Life Bookstore of Yixing Yada Yangxian Xishan. Mr. Cheng Kai, the professor of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the inheritor of Cheng’s Acupuncture and Moxibustion gave a lecture on profound Chinese medicine acupuncture in simple languages.
Xishan Leading Reader Program “Talking About Celebrities”

On the morning of April 17th, the Xishan Leading Reader Program held the “Talking About Celebrities” Reading Salon at the Life Bookstore of Yada Academy of Yixing Yada Health Ecological Park. The national Class-A actress and the performing artist Ms. Fang Zichun shared her artistic career and talked about the development of Beijing People’s Art Theater and many past stories.