It started in the era when Manchus ruled China. Under the terms of the Boxer Protocol signed in 1901 by the West and the Qing court who was just too ready to trade China for its tribal interest which could not be reconciled with that of the local Chinese, a number of Western nations, as well as Japan, had gained […]
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One of the big differences between ancient Chinese cities and buildings and the architecture from most other ancient civilizations is the materials they employed. Chinese mainly used timbers and bricks, which makes the physical footprints of ancient Chinese civilization easier to fate in time comparing to the ones formed with stones. However, a finding in the autumn of 1976 shows […]
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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematics Nine Chapters Math is the most important math book in Chinese history prior to the 20th century. Most researchers believe ancient mathematics in China and in the Mediterranean worked independently up to the time when the Nine Chapters Math reached its final form that was around the first century. “The method of chapter 7 […]
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Democracy or Dictatorship? The Corporate United States The essence The Corporate United States The form COMMENTS FROM GOOGLE PLUS Jan 18, 2017 Mani Elliott What’s wrong with democracy? All Things Chinese Democracy without centralization, for a group, it could mean inefficiency; for a country, it might lead to anarchy. But this is still not the worst scenario. What’s truly nasty […]
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In the year of 1011 during the Northern Song, a brand new 9-storey Buddhist pagoda was complete in Nanjing, in today’s Jiangsu Province. Under the pagoda, there is a basement where this Ashoka Tower along with Shakyamuni Buddha’s bone fragments, a crystal bowl, and a number of priceless Buddhist treasures was stored after a public ceremony hosted by grand Buddhist […]
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No Man’s Lands in China’s West Lop Nur, like a giant ear looking from the air, used to be a salt lake in the middle of the desert but dried up since the early 1960s. COMMENTS FROM TWITTER Davidson Why? What happened? All Things Chinese So far there is no definitive conclusion. But it’s most likely to be caused by […]
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A royal wedding procession passes through an arched bridge in Bianliang, the capital city of the North Song Dynasty in today’s Kaifeng, Henan Province. Arched Bridges A single-arch bridge in an old waterfront neighbourhood in Suzhou, an ancient city near Shanghai. A three-arch bridge in the ancient city Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province. COMMENTS FROM MINDS Eric The Romans used the […]
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Chinese swords of Warring States Era, collection of Shanghai Museum 2,500-Year-Old Sword of Goujian Long before the First Emperor Qin drove his army from the west in Xi’an to reach the east coast area and united China in 221BC, there were two highly developed kingdoms in the seaboard region, one in Shaoxing (near Hangzhou) and another in Suzhou (near Shanghai). […]
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Encountering a white bone demon is one of the 81 trials Buddhist monk Xuanzang, of Tang Dynasty, and his disciples would have to face before arriving in the land of enlightenment. Of course, the enlightened land in the west is not India. It is a state of consciousness. After all, a thousand years ago, there was no such a country […]
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In Chinese mythology, epidemics are caused by Five Epidemic Demons with five pairs of evil eyes, all having a human body but the head of a man, a tiger, a horse, a bird or a rooster. According to the Encyclopedia on The Origin of the Mysterious Figures from Confucius, Buddhism and Daoist (三教源流搜神大全), a work compiled during the Ming Dynasty, […]
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A War to Prevent the Resurrection of Chinese Civilisation Did America Just Confess to a COVID 19 Bio War We only need to examine the OPCW and their recent attempts to cover up use of chemical weapons in Syria by Western intelligence agencies as a “backdrop” as it were. If that was done, then might well COVID 19 be a […]
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The World Pandemic Outbreak in Italy Dr Remuzzi, co-author of a paper in The Lancet, says he is now hearing information from Italian GPs. “They remember having seen strange pneumonia in November. It means the virus was circulating in Italy before the outbreak in China.” An artwork by Aurora Different Foreign Policies from Different Cultural Traditions China sent a medical […]
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