From left to right: Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, General Iwane Matsui, and Prince Yasuhiko of Asaka in Nanjing, China, 18 Dec 1937 The Mastermind of the Nanjing Massacre Prince Asaka Yasuhiko was an uncle of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, who had directed a plan to wage a war against China as early as in 1935. In March of 1936, a year […]
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The following is a Chinese post titled “Why None of the Student Leaders Died? (很多学生死了, 为何柴玲, 吾尔开希, 李录等发起人却还活着?) “, written in 2004. The author took a hunger strike on Tiananmen Square until the last minute. Translation and photos added by Fish. The so-called “pro-democracy student leaders” claimed there was a “massacre” taken place on June 4th in Beijing. The question is, if this […]
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The following is an eye-twinness account penned in 2009 by 彩云舒, a Beijing scholar. English translation by Fish, photos and captions also added by Fish. In 1989, I briefly returned to Beijing for a research project that was jointly carried out by China’s Science Academy and an overseas company and had an opportunity to observe the whole process of the […]
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The following are an article penned by wanxi398 who witnessed the Tiananmen Incident 1989 and the English translation. Photos are added by Fish. When the Tiananmen Incident occurred, I was just eight-year-old. Although it is an age too young to be able to comprehend complicated matters, I was however aware of what was going on in the world around me. […]
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The following are a Chinese language post penned by 老气横秋 who participated and witnessed the Tiananmen Incident 1989 and its English translation. Photos and captions are added by Fish. May 18, 1989, Beijing factory workers joined the anti-corruption movement taking place in the Tiananmen Square initiated by university students. The corrupted officials were mainly referring to Deng Pufang, Deng Xiaoping’s […]
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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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