Theme: New Born

This is the 3rd TEDxTHU event.

A301 Lecture Hall
Tsinghua University
Academy of Arts and Design
Beijing, Beijing, 100084
China

Ang Wu

Journalist

Ang Wu — A new life path forged by writing innovation Born in 1974 in Zhangpu County of southeast China’s Fujian Province, Ang Wu studied in Shanghai and then in Beijing, where she ultimately stayed to work as a news reporter. In 2003, she quit her job to pursue a career as a poet, novelist, and essayist and has already published a number of works, including By What Can I Be Awakened and I’ll Just Come Right Out and Say It. She currently resides in a suburb of Beijing. At the conference, Ang used her passion and keen insight as a female poet to share the revolutionary—and fairly controversial—ideas and concepts of her written work. She also experimented with combining her new written works with various other art forms, playing for the attendees an audio recording of herself giving a proper recitation of her newest poem. In her view, reciting poetry that she herself penned provided a sense of “wholeness.”

Chunlin Mo

Singer

Chunlin Mo — Finding rebirth through creativity Hailing from Liangshan, an autonomous prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Chunlin Mo is a musician and singer of the Yi ethnic minority group. In 2008, he released hit single “Don’t Be Afraid” and in 2014 at the Good Chinese Songs variety show sang “If Die I Must, Let It Be in Your Hands,” whose lyrics were penned by famed poet Xinqiao Yun. It was through well-received works like these that Chunlin ultimately carved out his own, unique folk-ballad style. At the conference, Chunlin shared with the audience his most recent work, “Memories of Rebirth,” in which he sings in his native Yi language about life in the city and whose inspiration came from his experience exiting a subway station on a stormy day and noticing the masses flooding out like the very water they were fleeing. But perhaps most memorable was when he brought out a folk instrument and together with the audience created a musical experience that allowed attendees

David Wang

Bamboo Bikes maker

For eight years, David Wang, a foreigner with a profound love for Beijing hutongs (traditional residential alleys), worked with a group of other young go-getters to come up with a way to use high-end entrepreneurship to embody and reflect the culture of today’s youth. Bamboo Bikes was born. David came to this year’s conference to talk about his new startup and to, together with the help of the audience, transform a few shoots of bamboo into a brand-new Bamboo Bike, giving attendees a way to ride into the nearest hutong and experience for themselves the striking fluidity of cycling in a Chinese city.

Hangde Zhang

Soccer Player

Hangde Zhao is a model Communications student from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China—but he’s perhaps better known for being the first amateur “international” soccer player, landing him the nickname “the Renaldo of Dongdan [his Beijing neighbourhood].” Over the past two years, Hangde spent 392 days traveling through 23 countries over 6 continents, taking with him nothing but a pair of black cleats and a few worn soccer balls and making sure to shoot a video of his heading skills wherever he went. In December 2013, he underwent astronaut training at a U.S. space-training base, becoming China’s first ordinary person to “go up in space.”

Heyong Shen

Professor at South China Normal University

With a doctorate degree in Psychology, Professor Shen is currently a Psychology professor and PhD academic advisor at both the City University of Macau and South China Normal University. He is also China’s first-ever international analytical psychologist (now one of four), China’s first-ever international sandplay therapist (now one of two), President of the Chinese Federation of Analytical Psychology (CFAP), and chief sponsor of the International Society for Embodiment Imagination (ISEI). With a grown-out beard marking his wisdom, he is renown as the father of sandplay in China.

Huining Liu

Journalist and TV host

Huining Liu & Ninghan Xu—Tsinghua Engineering student finds innovation on one knee The most well-known couple on campus and with euphonically coordinated names, Ninghan and Huining are Tsinghua graduates now enjoying their respective lives as an Optics PhD and much-adored leading TV host. At the conference, together they shared their unforgettable experience at the Tsinghua University 103rd Anniversary Celebration, where Ninghan used his optics knowledge and laboratory experience to prepare a unique and magical proposal for Huining. Taken through the process of what went into the couple’s big moment, conference attendees could only marvel at the brilliant blend of science and romance.

Tiantian Li

CEO at dxy.cn

Tiantian Li — A good entrepreneur is one not looking to become the next big Internet CEO In 1999, Tiantian Li graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Harbin Medical University, at which he shortly thereafter completed his master’s in Cancer Immunology. In 2000, in the midst of his graduate studies, he created “Lilac Garden,” a web platform for medical professionals to discuss the acquisition, indexing, and retrieval of specialized medical documentation. Lilac Garden now has over 2 million active users.

Yueyue Wang

Student at Tsinghua University

Yueyue Wang graduated from the Department of Environmental Architecture and Technology of Tsinghua University’s School of Architecture. In her third year of university, she started China’s first-ever clean-energy education project, which spanned 13 universities across 7 cities and benefited over 8,000 participants. In March 2009, she represented China in the 2041 Antarctic Youth Ambassador Program, going on an expedition to the South Pole and getting to experience first-hand the effects of global warming on the Earth’s polar regions. In December of that same year, she attended the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference as a Youth Ambassador. At this year’s TEDxTHU Conference, Yueyue shared not only all of the experience she has acquired in her work on the sustainability of the Southeast Asian cocoa-farming industry but also all of the positive change that she has already brought to cocoa farmers and the