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November 2026

Watercolour illustration of the Hong Kong skyline seen across Victoria Harbour in the rain, with a red-sailed junk and a small sampan on the water

History

The Handover of Hong Kong

At 11.30 in the evening of 30 June 1997, in the Grand Foyer of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, a ceremony began that straddled midnight.

Watercolour illustration of a scholar in a blue robe raising a brush over a scroll at a writing desk, with a crane and pine panel in the lattice window behind

Culture

Wang Xizhi and the Art of the Brush

No original brushstroke by Wang Xizhi survives. Not one.

Watercolour illustration of the great Vairocana Buddha carved into a limestone cliff above a stone arch bridge, with rows of small niche Buddhas in the rock face

Culture

The Longmen Grottoes and the Stone Buddhas of Henan

Cut into the limestone cliffs on both banks of the Yi River thirteen kilometres south of Luoyang, the Longmen Grottoes hold the largest body of Buddhist sculpture ever carved into rock outside India itself, and the most important archive of Chinese calligraphy in stone.

Watercolour illustration of a line of drilling crews in padded jackets walking out across a plain toward a forest of steel derricks, one flare stack burning against a pale gold sky

History

The Daqing Oilfield and Iron Man Wang Jinxi

On 26 September 1959, a rig in the Songliao Basin of Heilongjiang Province pushed a column of oil out of the Songji No. 3 well at a rate of 13.02 tonnes a day, and the sound it made reached the Politburo in Beijing.

October 2026

Hand-painted watercolour illustration of the Tang dynasty scholar Lu Yu with a long grey beard, kneeling in a deep cinnabar red outer robe over an indigo gown at a low elm-wood tea tray on the stone terrace of a monastery courtyard near Chang'an on a pale gold winter morning, with a wooden roller grinder, a shallow round bamboo sieve case, a three-legged lidded salt jar, an iron cauldron in a cross-shaped iron stand above a low iron brazier with three square openings, a gourd ladle and a wide plain porcelain bowl, a young disciple in a slate-blue robe kneeling opposite, a plastered wall, timber lattice window, bare winter tree and grey tiled monastery roofs beyond

Culture

Lu Yu and the Classic of Tea

The best-known book ever written about tea contains no whisk, no teapot and no mention of a teacup.

Science & Tech

The Tiangong Space Station

Barred from the International Space Station, China executed a thirty-year human spaceflight program culminating in the permanent, modular Tiangong orbital laboratory.

Culture

Du Fu and Li Bai in the High Tang

In the spring of 744 in Luoyang, the two greatest poets of classical Chinese civilization met for the first time, forging an enduring literary friendship against the gathering storm of the An Lushan Rebellion.

History

The Discovery of the Oracle Bones at Anyang

When scholar Wang Yirong identified ancient script on apothecary bones in 1899, he unlocked the ruins of Anyang and proved the historical reality of the Shang Dynasty.

Places

The Yumen Pass and the Han Frontier

West of Dunhuang, where gravel desert meets salt marsh, the rammed-earth watchtowers of the Jade Gate stood as the Han Empire's westernmost threshold to the Silk Road.

History

The Bronze Masks of Sanxingdui

The colossal bronze masks with protruding eyes unearthed at Guanghan dismantled the single-origin model of Chinese civilization and revealed the lost metallurgy of an ancient Sichuan kingdom.

High-key editorial illustration of a Neolithic earth dam curving across a Zhejiang foothill basin around 2500 BCE, villagers in hemp tunics and indigo wrap skirts carrying baskets of earth and ramming the bank with wooden mallets, flooded rice paddies and a moat-ringed earthen platform on the plain beyond, wooded hills and mist behind under a wide pale gold morning sky, and a single small red cloth on a survey stake as the one accent.

History

The Liangzhu Culture and Its Water Management System

The Liangzhu culture was a Neolithic culture of the lower Yangtze region in eastern China, which flourished from about 3300 to 2300 BCE in the area around Lake Tai, in what are now the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu and the municipality of Shanghai.

High-key editorial illustration of four great rammed-earth tulou standing on a terraced hillside in south-western Fujian around 1800, three circular and one square with thick ochre walls, rows of small dark windows and deep grey tiled eaves, a narrow gate tower, swept rammed-earth courtyard with wooden galleries, villagers in indigo and slate-blue jackets carrying baskets and firewood up a stone path, bamboo groves and tea terraces behind under a wide pale gold morning sky, and a single small red cloth at the gate.

Places

The Earthen Tulou of Fujian

In the mountains of south-western Fujian province, in south-east China, stand large earthen buildings known as tulou, a term that means earthen buildings or earthen towers.