Welcome!

Welcome, for now, to my mentorship on “Reading the Chinese Medicine Classics” and, on February 8, to the official start of the 2024 Diamond Core course.

Please read the information on this page carefully.

A deep bow of gratitude that you continue to entrust me with this big task of teaching you classical Chinese and for joining me on this journey. As with the Foundations course, if you do your job of showing up, engaging with the material, and doing the homework, I promise you luscious learning, lovely laughter, and literary delights.

Please check your email inbox for a message with an invitation and the log-in details to access our KARTRA membership site. If you have taken the Foundations course previously, you know how all this works. As an active student in my 2024 Diamond Core course, you also have access to my ongoing Mentorship on Reading the Chinese Medicine Classics, hosted on the same platform.

In addition to the membership posts on that platform, I have created a special protected section with exclusive posts for our Diamond Core course. You will find this area by clicking on the “Diamond Core” category and then selecting from the drop-down menu on the horizontal menu bar on the top of our platform. You will be receiving emails with more information as we get closer to our first meeting on February 8 at 9 am Pacific Time.

If you are already a member of either the “Imperial Tutor” or my “Reading the Chinese Medicine Classics” mentorship or have taken the Foundations course, you know how these programs work and will find it easy to navigate this site. If not, please read the “Home” post carefully and take some time to familiarize yourself with the platform as a whole and the “Diamond Core” area in particular. This will be our main point of contact for the duration of our course.

As part of the basic membership, you will receive two posts each week via email until our course starts:

• Every 7 days, a weekly mini lesson just for you on your individual journey, which I ask you to read carefully. I hope that it inspires you to study and perhaps follow up with some of the suggestions that I have included in the post, from silly videos to getting a set of calligraphy brushes or setting up translation tools on the computer. Other members receive this series of posts in the same sequence whenever they sign up, but not at the same time as you get yours.

• For the first 4 Sundays in each month, all members receive an email with the “weekly challenge” in this order: 1: an individual character; 2: A four-character saying 成語; 3: A medical quote; and 4: A “mystery quote” from some other classical source. You are invited to explore the meaning, study and learn with each other, and share your thoughts and findings with your fellow members as comments to the post.

• You will also join the regular members for the monthly text reading, which is part of our course.

If you have any questions, always feel free to contact me, either through the contact link at the bottom of the HOME page or by clicking the envelope symbol in the side bar on the left, under the picture of me. I so look forward to meeting and working with you! Or just email me to info@imperialtutor.com.