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Today, we’re going to talk about a traditional Chinese painting of the Northern Song Dynasty from more than 1,000 years ago. Done by an unknown painte...

Today, we’re going to talk about a complex individual who came to China in the early 1920s as an agricultural explorer. The success of his early work ...

Today, we will continue the WWII story about the sinking of the Lisbon Maru and how some courageous Chinese fishermen near the Zhoushan Islands risked...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of both the establishment of diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level between China and the UK as well as ...

In a Chinese linguistic context, the ox is a symbol of diligence, dedication, progress, and strength. For example, a selfless commitment to the good o...

Today, we’re going to talk about a true Renaissance man of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. He was a bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and math...

Today, we’re going to continue our talk about Xuanzang taking a closer look at his stay in India, his odyssey on the way home, and how his translation...

For any overseas college student who wants to study China, one of the ideal texts for their first course is the 16th-century novel Journey to the West...

“Heaven has paradise. Earth has Suzhou and Hangzhou.” This old Chinese saying is inspired by the natural beauty of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province and Hang...

A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began to make their way to the New World, a Chinese fleet sent out by the Ming Emperor of Chi...

More than 600 years ago, a formidable Chinese navy ruled the seas along China’s eastern and southern coastlines extending its superiority throughout t...

Known in English as Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy, the painting Bunian Tu depicts a meeting between Tang Emperor Taizong and Gar Tongtse...