
Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes
In this Friday, October 31, 2025 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang explains that the people of the steppes were history's greatest conquerors because they were the most open...
9 Apr 58min

Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven
In his Wednesday, October 29, 2025 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang proposes a new theory on the birth of civilizations. Notes and References:1. Theogony by Hesiod2. Epic ...
9 Apr 57min

Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth
In this lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang explains how the religious imagination inspired humans to Heavenly achievements. Notes and References:1. The Wayfinders by Wade Da...
9 Apr 57min

Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination
In his Tuesday October 21, 2025 class Professor Jiang argues against Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. He believes that humans from the beginning were spiritual, compassionate, and artistic. Refer...
9 Apr 1h 1min

Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil
In this Friday, October 17, 2025 lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang examines three major American events. He shows that the official explanations for the JFK assassination, th...
9 Apr 58min

Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything
Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going?Scientists tell us they have all the solutions. The Big Bang Theory, Evolution, and Neuroscience reveal a random, material, and emergent un...
9 Apr 1h 6min

Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy
Notes and References:1. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt2. The Trial by Franz Kafka3. Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott4. For this talk, I relied heavily on the work of Michael Za...
9 Apr 1h 3min

Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy
We like to believe that a meritocracy is the best way to pick society's winners and losers. In this Friday, September 12, 2005 lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang argues that t...
9 Apr 1h 4min



















