On May 8th, Mr. Liu Xun, professor and director of Chinese Research Center of Rutgers University of U.S. visited HUAT and gave a lecture entitled Of Poems, Calligraphy, Zithers and Garden:　Quanzhen Hosting/Patronage of Arts at Xuanmiao Monastery in Late Qing and Early Republican Nanyang. More than a hundred students from college of humanities and foreign language attended the lecture.

Through cases of modern Nanyang xuanmiao monasteries, Professor Liu detailed latest research findings related to Daoist monasteries and local society, Daoism and art, which turned out to be an academic feast for the audience. After the lecture, Professor Liu visited the center of Wudang Culture Research and Communication Center and exchange opinions with the researchers about issues of international Chinese research, especially issues about Daoist research.

Mr. Liu Xun has many professional and academic titles such as associate professor of the department of history of Rutgers University, New Jersey, director of China Research Center of the university, oversea researcher of CRNS and GSRL. His teaching and research activities cover such areas as religions, sociology and history. He has published a number of articles in such national and international journals as Far Eastern and Far Western Journal, Quanzhen Daoist Research, Qing Dynasty Research, Asia Research and Harvard Asian Research as well as academic books such Modern Daoism-Innovation of Inner Alchemy and Practicing Communities in Shanghai During the period of the Republic of China, Eternity and Modern: Daoism in the Twentieth Century, Quanzhen Daosim and Chinese Culture and Society etc.