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Bao Zheng: China’s Symbol of Justice
Today, we’ll talk about Judge Bao Zheng, a legendary government official during the Northern Song Dynasty whose unwavering integrity has made him an …
3 hours ago
The Blood, the Tears, and the Fortune: China’s Southern Exodus
Today, we’ll talk about one of the largest and most overlooked migrations in modern history, a movement of millions from China’s coast to Southeast A…
1 week ago
Luoyang Bridge: The Ancient Stone Giant That Defied the Tides
Today, we’ll talk about Luoyang Bridge, a nearly thousand-year-old stone bridge in southeastern China whose ingenious use of oyster reefs, tidal forc…
2 weeks ago
A Temple Built on a Miracle: The Living History of Kaiyuan Temple
Today, we’ll talk about a famed temple in Quanzhou, a thousand-year-old landmark where legend, maritime exchange, and cultural fusion converge to rev…
3 weeks ago
Institution Behind Letters: Rise and Fall of Tianyi Post Office
Today, we’ll talk about Tianyi Post Office, the pioneering remittance and postal agency that connected overseas Chinese communities across Southeast …
4 weeks ago
Yongle Encyclopedia: Six Centuries of Mystery and Survival
Today, we’ll talk about the Yongle Encyclopedia, a monumental Chinese text dating from the Ming dynasty, and provide you with a fascinating narrative…
1 month ago
Pearl S. Buck: A Bridge Between East and West
Today, we’ll tell the bittersweet story of Pearl S. Buck, the American Nobel laureate who lived in China for the first half of her life at the turn o…
1 month, 1 week ago
Li Jingxun: The Most Spoiled Child in Chinese History
Today, we’ll talk about a new exhibition at the National Museum of China that tells the story of history’s ‘most spoiled child’, a girl whose tomb wa…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
She Wrote of Love, Then Watched a Dynasty Fall
Today, we’ll talk about Li Qingzhao, China’s greatest female poet, whose extraordinary life of love, loss, and resilience inspired some of the most b…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Anne Swann Goodrich: The American Who Saved Beijing’s Paper Gods
Today, we’ll talk about an American woman who devoted nearly a century building bridges between cultures and preserving the paper gods, folk beliefs,…
2 months ago