Two Approaches to Countering Corruption
In contrast with the popular “strike harder” tone of Xi Jinping’s campaign...
Ming Dynasty
The Tales of Two Temples
At Sinosphere, Didi Kirsten Tatlow describes efforts to preserve Beijing’s Ming-dynasty...
After Conquest, Subtle Emblems of Protest
In the New York Times, Holland Cotter reviews an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,“The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection,” and points out...
Ma Jian: “In China, I Feel Kafka’s Presence Everywhere.”
Author Ma Jian tells The Wall Street Journal which five writers he’d most like to meet: Franz Kafka “To me, Kafka is the most alive of dead writers, no doubt because of his acute understanding of the modern...
Five Books: Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food
Five Books talks to Fuchsia Dunlop about her recommended reading on Chinese food: Is there a clear continuum in Chinese cooking from ancient traditions to contemporary styles, or do you have the same sort of thing as in Europe...
The Mystery of the Ming Dynasty Galleon and China’s 16th-Century Exports
A group of fisherman diving off the Chinese coast near the Nan’ao island chain discovered a shipwreck and blue-and-white porcelain plates. The Telegraph blog reports: When the fisherman took the researchers to the site,...
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