Di Gao offers a a brief history of Confucius' life and times and gives an overview of Confucius' Analects. Di Gao is a professor in the Center for Ideological and Political Education at Northeast Normal University, China. He has translated the book, The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention by Elliot Turiel and is the author of Research on Socialist Core Values of Chinese Communist Party (People’s Publishing House, 2013). Currently, Di Gao is a visiting scholar in the field of children’s social and moral development and education at the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley. This event is sponsored with the UAA Confucius Institute.