Lecture Rooms (Baijia Jiangtan 百家讲坛） is a series of lecture programs launched by PRC focusing on chinese history and culture (starting from 2004). It invites scholars (professors) from university to talk about a subject on chinese history and lecture. They are broadcasted regularly in CCTV.

The more famous lecture include Prof. Yi Zhongtian's series of lecture on 3 kingdom (易中天品三国） and Prof. Yudan's talk on Confucius (论语心得）， Prof. Yan Chongnian's talk of Qing history (明亡清兴）. There are also many lectures on chinese literature, chinese military, philosophy etc. In Singapore, the DVD's are available for purchase in major chinese shops.

Neverthless, the lecture series are now available for watching online by going to the official website

The official website of Lecture Rooms is

http://space.tv.cctv.com/podcast/bjjt

Note that you need to understand Mandarin in order to watch them.

[p.s. we've talked about this many times, but just want to show everyone the official website)

Everything was really exciting until I saw that. "Sigh"

But for those who can understand Mandarin, the site looks very good.