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 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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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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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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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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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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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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