The John Batchelor Show

Sunday 28 April 2013

Air Date: 
April 28, 2013

Photo, above: Prof Cheng Man-ching, Master of Five Excellences [and exceptional polymath]. "In past history, if a scholar mastered a single subject, then others could study it from him. That scholar could then, as a teacher, connect the students with the sages of the past many years ago . . .  Professor Cheng excelled in five fields: poetry, painting, calligraphy, and t’ai-chi ch'uan (a martial art), and medicine. He was famous the world over for these attainments. He also studied deeply the teachings of former sages, and was such a prolific writer that he did not realize old age was creeping upon him. Professor Cheng surpassed the accomplishments of Cheng Kuan-wen. People who believe him to be the most outstanding individual in Chinese cultural history in this century (literally, since the founding of the Republic of China, 1911) are not exaggerating." See: Hour 1 Blocks A & B,  The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ by David Shenk, on developing genius through study and practice.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Saturday  2 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A:   The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ by David Shenk (1 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block B:   :   The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ by David Shenk

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers by Nancy Sherman  (1 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block D:  The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers by Nancy Sherman

Hour Two

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 2, Block A:  The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism by Joyce Appleby (1 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 2, Block B:  The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism by Joyce Appleby (2 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 2, Block C:   Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad by Robert S. Wistrich  (1 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 2, Block D:   Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad by Robert S. Wistrich  (2 of 2)

Hour Three

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block A:   Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad by Robert S. Wistrich  (1 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block B:   Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad by Robert S. Wistrich  (2 of 2)

Photo, left: Red Guards (simplified Chinese: 红卫兵; traditional Chinese: 紅衛兵; pinyin: Hóng Wèibīng) were a mass paramilitary social movement of young people in the People's Republic of China (PRC), who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution. According to a Red Guard leader, the movement's aims were as follows:

"Chairman Mao has defined our future as an armed revolutionary youth organization...So if Chairman Mao is our Red-Commander-in-Chief and we are his Red soldiers, who can stop us? First we will make China red from inside out and then we will help the working people of other countries make the world red . . . And then the whole universe."

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block C:  Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds by Ping Fu and MeiMei Fox  (1 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block D: Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds by Ping Fu and MeiMei Fox  (2 of 2)

Hour Four

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block A:  Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude M. Steele  (1 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block B:  Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude M. Steele  (2 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block C:  A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II by Richard Snow (1 of 2)

Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block D:   A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II by Richard Snow  (2 of 2)

 

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Ouyang Xiang, son of the former first secretary of Hei-long-jiang’s provincial party committee, was dragged outside the North Plaza Hotel, persecuted for sending an unsigned letter to the provincial revolutionary committee defending his denounced father. Three days later, he was pushed out of a third-story window of the building where he was held. The official report called his death a suicide. Harbin, Hei-long-jiang province, Nov. 30, 1968. - Li Zhensheng/Contact Press Images

For a clearer picture, see second photo down: http://lens.blogs.nytimes [dot] com/2012/09/10/through-a-thwarted-cinematographers-eye-chinas-cultural-revolution/

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