Footbinding in China
Somewhere between her fourth birthday and her seventh, a girl in certain parts of China had her feet broken. The word her family used…
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Chinese Culture
The Jesuits at the Chinese Court
In the spring of 1601 a mechanical clock was carried into the Forbidden City at Beijing, and for the first time in the history…
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Harmony Is Not Agreement
On a cold morning in the ninth century BC, a duke of Qi came back from hunting and found his minister Liangqiu Ju waiting…
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The Long Making of the Han People
According to China’s seventh national census, carried out in 2020, 1,286,311,334 people in mainland China identified as Han, or 91.11% of the population. Add…
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