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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Foreseeing the Future by Reviewing<br />

the Past<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2004—09—26<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=96345859<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Sep 26th, 2004: ―Reviewing the past as a means <strong>of</strong><br />

ruling.‖—This ancient saying has almost become the common understanding <strong>of</strong> those<br />

working in the management field in China.<br />

Together with china‘s per capita GDP exceeding 1000 dollars, Chinese citizens‘<br />

consuming structure has begun to transit into ten thousand or even one hundred<br />

thousand, and the educational consumption has begun to pursue the goal <strong>of</strong><br />

sustainable life-long education. However, most <strong>of</strong> China‘s educational fields still stay<br />

in a simple level as specific skill training; and courses from a strategically<br />

advantageous position, which can improve one‘s continuing learning ability, such as<br />

―understanding management through history‖, are quite few.<br />

Today, Guanghua school <strong>of</strong> Management and History Department <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong><br />

cooperated with each other and <strong>of</strong>fered the MBA course ―understanding<br />

management through history‖ in time, to discuss the art <strong>of</strong> ―foreseeing the future by<br />

reviewing the past‖ together. Although there are thousands <strong>of</strong> management training<br />

courses in China, the newly-designed course at <strong>PKU</strong> breaks a path for the<br />

―history—management‖ systematic research, both in China and around the world.<br />

Wang Youtian, famous historian nowadays and pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> History Department,<br />

said that this newly-designed course at <strong>PKU</strong> is not a rigid history study, but designed<br />

to transfer the essence <strong>of</strong> management contained in history into source <strong>of</strong> creation in<br />

practice. When teaching, the pr<strong>of</strong>essors would select and analyze some prominent<br />

cases, describe those details and relating elements which have influenced historic<br />

events as exactly as possible, so as to view the problems from a systematically<br />

historic perspective.<br />

He emphasized that everyone could see examples <strong>of</strong> management in history, but it<br />

wouldn‘t be that easy to really ―learn‖ something about management through history.<br />

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