China Boycotts Christmas
It’s Christmas and something strange is happening in China. Many local authorities, like those at Langfang, Hebei, have issued bans prohibiting shops and vendors from displaying Christmas decorations. That’s not…
36 Dirty Tricks From Ancient China
understanding China through history and legends by Singaporean writer Chan Joon Yee
It’s Christmas and something strange is happening in China. Many local authorities, like those at Langfang, Hebei, have issued bans prohibiting shops and vendors from displaying Christmas decorations. That’s not…
Written by historian and journalist 梁启超, one of the leaders in the 百日维新 Hundred Days’ Reform Movement who saw the transformation of imperial China into a republic, the text from…
The Treaty of Versailles was about to be signed in June 1919, officially ending World War 1. In East Asia, Germany would surrender and withdraw from Shandong and return it…