Centenarian poetry scholar wows audience at Tianjin symposium

The audience was captivated when 100-year-old Florence Chia-ying Yeh, a renowned Chinese poetry scholar, made a rare appearance at Nankai University on Oct 15 during an international symposium on teaching Chinese poetry.

She delivered a lecture on Chinese poetry and shared her reasons for choosing to live in Tianjin's Nankai district.

When Yeh concluded her speech, the audience stood to applaud her expertise and tireless efforts in promoting Chinese poetry around the world.