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Xu Guangqi: The Torchbearer of China’s Enlightenment
Today, we’re going to talk about a true Renaissance man of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. He was a bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mat…
3 years, 9 months ago
Xuanzang: Return of the Pilgrim
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 translatio…
3 years, 10 months ago
Xuanzang: The Solitary Pilgrim
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 Wes…
3 years, 10 months ago
Lion Grove Garden: Between Reality and Illusion
“Heaven has paradise. Earth has Suzhou and Hangzhou.” This old Chinese saying is inspired by the natural beauty of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province and Han…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ming Admiral Zheng He: Seven Epic Voyages
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 Ch…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ming Admiral Zheng He: Mysteries Behind the Exploits
More than 600 years ago, a formidable Chinese navy ruled the seas along China’s eastern and southern coastlines extending its superiority throughout …
3 years, 10 months ago
Bunian Tu: Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy
Known in English as Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy, the painting Bunian Tu depicts a meeting between Tang Emperor Taizong and Gar Tongts…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Great Relic Relocation: An Historic Migration
In 1931, following the September 18th Incident in China, the Japanese occupied three provinces in Northeast China, including Liaoning, Jilin and Heil…
3 years, 11 months ago
Origins Project: All Points of Origin
Today we’ll have the second installment of our two-part feature where we discuss a nationwide archaeological project that challenges previous notions…
3 years, 11 months ago
Origins Project: Truth from Legend
The “Origins Project" is a decades-long, multi-disciplinary research endeavor that aims to trace the development of Chinese civilization. The project…
3 years, 11 months ago