Why China’s ultimate villain Qin Hui might have…
Statues of Qin Hui and his wife, Lady Wang, at Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou, China. While the Song dynasty…
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China’s first nationwide elections were a flawed…
Held in 1909 in a desperate attempt to safeguard the ailing Qing dynasty, China’s first nationwide elections were…
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The Emperor Qianlong defaced countless priceless Chinese artworks with his own seals, acts of historical vandalism…
Giving mooncakes at Mid-Autumn a recent trend in…
Mooncakes and Mid-Autumn Festival go together today, but it wasn’t always so. Tang and Song dynasty texts say they…
The Chinese history book that got 70 people…
In a famous example of ‘literary inquisition’ in Chinese history, more than 1,000 people were punished for the…
The man who can answer any question on China you…
Former diplomat and teacher Endymion Wilkinson’s pithy explanations of key issues of Chinese culture and quirky…
New history textbooks for Hong Kong students…
The 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown is now listed under a section titled ‘Difficulties encountered during the…