• Session 1: World Creativity Summit: Launch and Public Dialogues
• Session 2: Living Urban Heritage
• Session 3: Culture Core Values and Chinese Modernity
• Session 4: Popular Culture

Wednesday 25 July 2007, 9:30 am. - 11:30 am and 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Session 3: Culture Core Values and Chinese Modernity

The past few years have witnessed a reviving interest in traditional Chinese culture, with people in mainland China and abroad again highly valuing such time-honoured classics as Lun Yu – The Analects of Confucius and Dao De Jing – The Way and Its Power of Laozi. People in modern society are seeking enlightenment from these classical works, trying to uncover core values in traditional culture and explore their meanings in life as befitting the realities of today.

The forum will feature many renowned educators, academics and art specialists, who will be giving multi-perspective, insightful talks on a variety of topics, including –

• core values in traditional culture
• modernity of Chinese culture;
• developing and passing-on of traditional culture;
• the way traditional culture's art and aesthetics boost cultural self-inspection in an era of mass-media