李之柏今晚线上开讲三国：对比《三国志》《三国演义》与京剧的英雄15年
金山湾区华人写作协会主办的专题讲座《战鼓声中划过天际的流星——中国史上英雄辈出的三国》于美西时间10月31日（星期六）晚7时线上开讲，由前摩托罗拉总公司副总裁李之柏主讲，对比《三国志》《三国演义》与京剧如何描绘三国历史上最精彩的15年。讲座通过Zoom举行，并在该协会YouTube频道同步直播，现正进行。
据主办方介绍，这次讲座对比《三国志》《三国演义》与京剧如何描述三国历史中最精彩的15年：小说与戏剧里有很多夸张的故事，但它们从不同的角度达到了文化传播的贡献。主办方在讲座介绍中说，在历史长河中，朝代更迭替换，忠臣和奸臣轮番出现，后浪不断地推前浪，代代出英雄；若不是罗贯中的演绎与增加桥段，才把那段历史编辑成引人入胜的故事，让那些人物有幸名垂青史。
图：讲座海报。金山湾区华人写作协会供图。
主办方还指出，古时候绝大多数的老百姓是文盲，他们不可能研读史书，所以地方戏曲有了传播教化的作用；中华文化命脉就是靠小说家和戏曲家的努力而传播下来的，他们的教化作用甚至比历史学者还重要。主办方希望，通过这次讲座，大家再看到现代小说家写的历史小说和电视上播的大型历史连续剧，不会再鄙视它们。
主讲人李之柏早年毕业于国立台湾大学机械工程学系，之后在美国伊利诺伊大学相继获得能源工程硕士及电脑辅助工程博士学位。1984年至1997年及2000年至2001年期间，他任职于美国摩托罗拉公司，历任摩托罗拉移动电话事业部总经理、摩托罗拉手机部副总裁、摩托罗拉总公司副总裁，并从1988年起长期负责摩托罗拉与中国的各项合作业务，推动了第一款中文显示手机的问世，并被世界电联设为中文编码的标准。1997年至2000年，他受聘于美国NASDAQ上市公司蜂星电讯集团（CellStar）任亚洲区总裁，负责该集团在中国大陆、香港及台湾分销移动电话及配件的业务运营；2001年至2006年，他加入中国网通，成为中国电信运营商领域第一位外籍高级管理人员；2006年至2008年，任德信无线科技公司（NASDAQ上市公司）总裁兼COO。2008年，他渐渐淡出职场，开始云游四海，过着退休生活。
参加方式：Zoom会议号4088398596，密码55555，主办方注明一百位之后请入直播室；YouTube直播可至金山湾区华人写作协会YouTube频道收看，错过直播的观众可于事后在该频道观看回放。中港台时间为11月1日（星期日）上午10时。
关联：《中国五千年》电子书
来源：GSM·美国
Zhibo Li Lectures Online Tonight on the Three Kingdoms: Records, Romance and Peking Opera
A special lecture hosted by the Chinese Writers Association of the San Francisco Bay Area (CWASFB), "A Shooting Star Across the Sky Amid the Drums of War: The Hero-Filled Three Kingdoms in Chinese History," began online at 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, October 31. The speaker, Zhibo Li, a former vice president of Motorola, compares how the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Peking opera each portray the most dramatic 15 years of the Three Kingdoms period. The talk is held on Zoom and livestreamed on the association's YouTube channel, and is now under way.
According to the organizer, the lecture compares how the historical Records, the novel Romance and Peking opera describe those 15 years: the novel and the stage are full of embellished tales, the organizer notes, yet each in its own way has served the spread of culture. Dynasties rose and fell, loyal officials and villains took their turns, and each generation produced its heroes; without Luo Guanzhong's retelling and added episodes, the organizer says, that history would not have become the gripping stories that made its figures immortal.
The lecture poster. Courtesy of the Chinese Writers Association of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The organizer also notes that in ancient times most common people could not read and had no access to history books, so local opera served to teach and enlighten; the lifeline of Chinese culture, the organizer says, was carried on by novelists and dramatists, whose educational role was in some ways greater than that of historians. Through this lecture, the organizer hopes audiences will no longer look down on modern historical novels and the large historical TV dramas adapted from them.
Speaker Zhibo Li graduated from the mechanical engineering department of National Taiwan University and went on to earn a master's degree in energy engineering and a doctorate in computer-aided engineering from the University of Illinois in the United States. From 1984 to 1997 and again from 2000 to 2001, he worked at Motorola in the United States, serving as general manager of its mobile phone division, vice president of its handset unit and a vice president of the corporation; from 1988 he long headed Motorola's various cooperation programs with China, drove the debut of the first Chinese-display mobile phone, and saw the related encoding adopted by the International Telecommunication Union as the standard for Chinese encoding. From 1997 to 2000 he was president for Asia at CellStar, a NASDAQ-listed company, overseeing its distribution of mobile phones and accessories in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan; from 2001 to 2006 he worked at China Netcom, becoming the first foreign senior executive in China's telecom operator sector; from 2006 to 2008 he was president and COO of TechFaith Wireless, also NASDAQ-listed. In 2008 he gradually stepped away from the corporate world and has since been travelling in retirement.
How to join: Zoom meeting ID 4088398596, passcode 55555; the organizer notes that after the first 100 participants, viewers should join via the livestream. The YouTube livestream is on the Chinese Writers Association of the San Francisco Bay Area's YouTube channel, where a replay will also be available afterwards. The start time for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan is 10 a.m. on Sunday, November 1.
Related: Five Thousand Years of China (eBook)
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：讲座海报上半部，讲题与主讲人李之柏。金山湾区华人写作协会供图。 / Top portion of the lecture poster, showing the talk title and speaker Zhibo Li. Courtesy of the Chinese Writers Association of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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