Traditional Chinese Toilets
The toilets that you see on the tourist trails are specially built to impress tourists. Many toilets in countryside or even obscure corners of the city still follow this traditional…
36 Dirty Tricks From Ancient China
understanding China through history and legends by Singaporean writer Chan Joon Yee
The toilets that you see on the tourist trails are specially built to impress tourists. Many toilets in countryside or even obscure corners of the city still follow this traditional…
Xiao Shu is facing his first major banking issue. He bought some endowment funds some time ago and decided to redeem then upon maturity but his card suddenly didn’t work.…
China’s most revered leader Mao Zedong was a great fan of Lu Xun. That’s because Lu Xun was a leftist writer. Some of his essays and stories supported the Communist…
Guiyang is the provincial capital of Guizhou. Why is it that zoo animals get priority over people? Because when strangers go missing, no one will notice. If the the zoo…
Another one from Miles Kwok. I don’t believed that his prediction was so accurate. But reasoning that China’s leaders would use suicide squads, hoes, fishing nets and “civilian vessels” to…
Miles Kwok again. I don’t know if Xi would say such things to the leader of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan when he visits them, but one thing we can be sure…
On many occasions, decorated police officer Inspector Liu Jian had complained about his colleagues destroying evidence (possibly after being paid to do so). It became so difficult for him to…
It’s actually a lot more common than we think. 10 years ago, when I still saw a lot of promise in the rise of China, I was flummoxed about why…
Performed live at a pub in Beijing, is the censored version with no mention of the Party or the government. The version below is the original uncensored version of this…
211 AD. Cao Cao announced that he was invading 张鲁 at 汉中. He had to pass through the 关中 region to get there. 马超 figured that Cao Cao’s real intention…