This is part of the Lux et Veritas Series. 

Event Time

June 15-27 (except for June 19), 2026

• 4 hours (10:00-12:00, 13:00-15:00) everyday
• Arrive at least 15 minutes earlier before the morning & afternoon sessions start

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration

Please click “HERE” to register.

Participant Selection:

• All are welcome, with preference for:

  ◇Exceptional intellectual promise, English ability, communications skills, and reading capability

  ◇Profound interest in humanities and/or liberal arts

• One “fast take” response about why this program interests you (in English, include relevant personal experiences and aspirations to avoid sounding like an AI, 150 words or under)

• Optional: English fluency test scores (IELTS or SSAT or SAT or TOEFL or Duolingo)

• Willingness to appear on livestream for a global audience on worldwide channels

* Registration is subject to approval.

Program Deposit: ¥300

Those who are punctual and attend all sessions in full will receive a full refund of the program deposit.

Program Materials & Preparation:

• Watch all the videos in Jiang's Great Books series on his "Predictive History" channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&list=PLA4GkWQ8N2|zE9VVz2UC4p4KyNYshe3NV

• Line by line reading of Alan Mandelbaum's translation (during program):

https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/

The Event

The Divine Comedy is one of the greatest literary works, and is the blueprint for the Italian Renaissance. Dante’s ideas would come to inspire the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment. This 12-day seminar, which covers the volume in its entirety, aims to reveal the universal and eternal truths embedded in Dante, and how each of us—by using our intuition and imagination—can access these truths, and be forever transformed by them.

The Contributors

Xueqin Jiang ’99
Main Contributor

Xueqin Jiang is host of the YouTube channel “Predictive History,” which currently has over 2.5 million subscribers. On his channel, he correctly predicted that Trump would start a war against Iran. He has been interviewed by Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan, and Mehdi Hasan. For the past four years, he has been teaching the Great Books (Homer, Dante, and Plato). Previously, he was instrumental in starting the international programs at Peking University High School and Shenzhen Middle School and authored books on education. He graduated from Yale College in 1999 with distinction in English.

David Bromwich ’73 PhD ’77
Sterling Professor of English, Yale University
Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Sciences & Letters

Carol Li Rafferty ’00
Executive Director, Yale Center Beijing

Contact

Please send an email to yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu, or reach out to the Yale Center Beijing Team for inquiries:
WeChat ID: Yalecenterbeijing
Cellphone: +86 13810559940
(Monday to Friday, 9:00-18:00 )

Note for Yale Center Beijing (YCB) Program Participants

• You must bring a valid physical photo ID in order to enter Yale Center Beijing (YCB), copies or pictures of IDs will not be accepted.

• Attendees grant permission to YCB to photograph and video record their image and/or voice. Permission is granted for YCB to release, publish, broadcast or quote this material in public information programs and activities. Content procured may be included in future speeches, on the Internet, through multiple broadcast channels and print media.

• For security reasons, the YCB staff reserves the right to refuse entry to anyone.