For thousands of years, the Analects has been regarded as the primary text for understanding the thought of Confucius. However, it is not an easy text to grasp, and among the many powerful ideas in it, one of the most challenging is the emphasis that Confucius places on "ritual" (li). This talk will attempt to explain Confucius' view of ritual and its connection to virtue and other important elements of his philosophy, as a way of providing an introductory overview of the Analects.

Ma Weihua, from china Social & Cultural Development Foundation, is the Chinese calligraphy artist. Born in 1958,Ma Weihua started to practice the traditional Chinese calligraphy at the age of ten. He spent his life time on the art although his official job is in public service. He went further from the calligraphy on paper to wood and seal (stone) carving to china carving.
Ma participated many artist events in and out of China. In 2004 and 2006 Ma participated the art show in Paris and other cities in France. He won hundreds of prize and rewards, name a few, "World Well Known Artist Person" in China, "National Reward of France", "Special Art Reward" of French Artist Association.
A lot of his papers and three books are published which are available for the art event and collection at the same time.
In his 40 years calligraphy practice, he had tried all the style in different time of Chinese history which makes him study the calligraphy style with the development of Chinese character. Now his focus is the interactive relations between the calligraphy style and the development of Chinese characters, the combination of art form and Chinese language.
In the visit to CI University of Utah, he will give a lecture, subject, "A Touch on the Development of Chinese Characters"----Calligraphy Vision on Chinese language development.

Location: Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Bldg. Rm 125
Open hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00am-5:00pm