At the north end of Bargor Street in the old town of Lhasa, adjacent to Jokhang Temple, there stands a three-storey building in typical Tibetan style. Covering an area of 720 square metres, the building was first erected in the 17th century by the fifth Dalai Lama as a government headquarters of Lhasa but was late turned into one of the most […]
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1998 Asian Financial Meltdown Video with English subtitle: China-US financial war in Hong Kong by 巫师财经, a Chinese financial advisor As it is explicitly explained in the video, Asian Financial Meltdown was a crisis initiated by the U.S. single-handedly, with the purpose to suppress the development of the new economies in Asia, in particular, Japan and China. When commenting on the […]
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Chinese Spies in Your Home There are serious allegations of Chinese spies lately. An interior department from a state has warned against using certain products made in China or with Chinese parts. Here is evidence collected online to support such claims. A Chinese spy gazing you in your bathtub. A smug tongue-poking Chinese spy beside your washbasin. A grinning Chinese […]
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Chinese dance A Jasmine Flower based on a Chinese folk song Jasmine, oh so fair! Jasmine, oh so fair! Budding and blooming in summer Here and there, The value of its purity and fragrance That universally declare. Then Autumn comes With a cold spell, Flowers fall in the mud, No one seems to care; Rumours of its toxic nature Widely […]
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Dream of the Red Chamber narrates how a grand household with a large population and a high GDP figure decayed and collapsed. During its heyday, a splendid banquet was held at a luxury and spacious pavilion built on a lily pool, with steamed crabs as the main course and a writers’ festival as the core activity, organized by the poets club with members mainly […]
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This is not a fairytale but a real incident occurred in a zoo in Guangdong Province. A tiger and a monkey were neighbours with their territories separated by steel bars along the border. One day when the tiger quietly took a nap, the restless and insecure monkey somehow became more vicious, more aggressive, more inclined to take risks to come […]
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The Colour ink paintings are selected from picture book Wu Song Beats the Tiger, which is a story in Water Margin – a Ming Dynasty novel about the Song Dynasty rebels. Author Liu Jiyou (刘继卣 1918 – 1983) received several Chinese and international awards for his artwork in Wu Song Beats the Tiger. After years of working as a freelance kung […]
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The Sun Is Setting in the West According to Daoist concept, the earthly existence is a shadowy reflection of the celestial reality. The dark mass looming on the western horizon is not gigantic hills, but a massive piece of cloud. A scene of yin-yang division between the dark west and the rest of the sky that is rather bright appeared in the […]
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