Tag: chinese civilization
China’s Five Sacred Creatures and What They Actually Meant
The dragon: lord of transformation, emblem of imperial power The Shuowen Jiezi, the Han dynasty's...
How Beijing’s Character Simplification Campaign Severed China from Its Own Civilization
Look carefully at two versions of the same character. The first is 愛, the traditional form of the Chinese...
Ancient Chinese Health Wisdom: What the Book of Rites Says About the Body
In classical Chinese thought, virtue produces a physically observable effect on the body The Book...
China’s Most Educated Man Gu Hongming Spent His Life Defending His Country’s Lost Values
At the turn of the twentieth century, China was losing a war it had been fighting for decades, not on...
Was the Yuan Dynasty Chinese? Rethinking China’s Identity Beyond Ethnicity and Empire
The debate reflects a broader shift in historical interpretation. In modern discourse, particularly under...
China’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala Replaced Performers with Robots, and Millions Refused to Watch
The Chinese Communist Party's flagship television network made a revealing choice for the most-watched...
Qian Mu Read a Party Proclamation for Three Minutes—and Chose Exile
By Chen Jing Saving a last breath for Chinese civilization: Qian Mu and the newspaper that decided...
Across Time: The Evolution of How Ancient Civilizations Were Viewed Through the Ages
Published with permission from LuxuryWeb.com In the early days, the Mediterranean world was divided...
Scholars: Communism, Not China, Is the Enemy
A July 3 open letter addressed to President Donald Trump and Congress has fuelled public debate about...