Beijing Forbidden City, built 600 years ago, is the largest royal palace in today’s world. But it pales in comparison with Nanjing Forbidden City built 30 years earlier in the late 14th century.
China Affairs & Beyond
Unit 731, Japan’s Bio Warfare Army (2)
Scientists have begun digging for corpses at the site of a former Tokyo medical college allegedly used to conduct bio-warfare trials, reopening one of the darkest chapters of Japan’s wartime past.
Chinese History
Battle of Muye 3000 Years Ago
About 3,000 years ago, there was a superpower called Shang (商, meaning commerce), which was ruled by corporate merchants. The profit-driven Shang was in constant […]
Chinese Culture
Welcome to Year of Marine Tiger 2022
Attributes of Tiger in Fengshui –
Five Agents: Wood in Jungle
Colour: White
Location: West
Chinese Medicine
Top Ten Anti-Aging Natural Remedies Recommended by Chinese Medicine
Of 365 remedies listed in Divine Farmer’s Herbal Medicine (神农本草经), about one third are categorised as having possessed the first-grade anti-aging properties with no or neglectable toxic side effects.
Chinese Business
Ancient Chinese Currency
Chinese is one of the first people using currency instead of real goods to conduct trade activities. China’s Bronze Age Coins The earliest currencies used […]
Chinese Art
A Women’s Kingdom
The Kingdom of Women (女儿国) is a chapter in the classic Chinese fantasy novel Flowers in the Mirror (镜花缘) by Li Ruzhen (李汝珍). The novel […]
Land of China
China’s Backbones
Normally when Chinese mention China’s natural landscape, they often refer to it as “Three Eminent Hills and Five Great Mountains”, they are considered as China’s backbones.
Chinese Legends
A Tale of Nezha
About 3,000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty (商朝), there was a military commander named Li Jin (李靖). Li Jing had a son called Nezha […]
Chinese Technology
The Invisible Great Wall Of China
Legend had it that a county named Eternal Clarity (永清县) located halfway between Beijing and Tianjin was once a bloody battlefield a thousand years ago. […]
