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May 30 Movement in Shanghai

September 5, 2021 Wendy & Awen China Affairs & Beyond, Chinese History

The May 30 Movement became a landmark event in China’s struggle for national sovereignty and workers’ rights which eventually led to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China that eliminated all foreign concessions in China, including in Shanghai.

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A Letter from Mao Zedong’s Son

July 25, 2021 Wendy & Awen People in China

A letter by Chairman Mao’s son Mao Anying which gives a glimpse of how a new China shapes people’s mentality and relationships.

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Chinese Treasures In The West

March 6, 2021 Wendy & Awen Chinese History

Currently, there are about 1.64 million pieces of Chinese antiques scattered in museums and art galleries of 47 countries; as for those held in overseas private collections, the figure is ten times higher.

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Chinese Dialects

December 7, 2020 Wendy & Awen Chinese Culture

For thousands of years, Chinese people speak in hundreds of different dialects but use only one script, Han Characters, which makes the written communication and culture inheritance possible.

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Qibao – A Thousand-Year-Old Town In Shanghai

November 17, 2020 Wendy & Awen Chinese Architecture

It is said that if you want to know how Shanghai looks in the recent decades, you should go to Pudong; if you want to know how Shanghai looked a hundred years ago, you should go to The Bund; and if you want to know how Shanghai looked a thousand years ago, you should go to Qibao.

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China’s Classic Literature – Xiwen

October 19, 2020 Wendy & Awen Chinese Culture

Odes of the Warrior States era, rhymed essays of the Han Dynasty, couplet-style essays of the Wei-Jin age, poems of the Tang Dynasty, verses of the Song Dynasty, lyrics of the Yuan time, and novels of the Ming Dynasty represent the highest literary achievements of the corresponding period respectively.

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Amazing Trees in China

June 16, 2019 Wendy & Awen Land of China

An Ancient Statue in an Aging Tree This over a thousand-year-old Camphor tree in a Fujian village has a hole in the middle of its trunk, looking like a belly button in a human body. From the belly buttonhole, you can see the face of an ancient statue. Nobody knows since when the statue was there and how the statue was […]

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Chinese Calligraphy

A time of upheaval
A thunder shocks the world

A land splits in two
Flags in red and blue

China in the 1950s – a Factory Library

During the 1950s and 1980s, ordinary workers in China enjoyed great social respect and were encouraged to take part in workplace management – it is a noble experiment in grassroots democracy.

Part of a Poem by Chairman Mao

The east is dawing,
Travellers begin touring.

Complete the journey before getting old,
Here is the most beautiful sight to behold.

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