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Cui Jian and the Rise of Chinese Rock Music
In May 1986 a concert was held at the Workers’ Gymnasium in Beijing to mark the International Year of Peace declared by the United Nations.
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Liu Cixin and the Rise of Chinese Science Fiction
On 22 August 2015, at the World Science Fiction Convention held in Spokane, Washington, the Hugo Award for Best Novel was given to The Three-Body Problem, a book by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin, translated into English by Ken Liu.
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Xuanzang’s Pilgrimage to India and the Translation Bureau of Tang Chang’an, 629-645
In the autumn of the year 629, more precisely in the ninth month of the Zhenguan reign, a 27-year-old Tang monk climbed alone through one of the lesser-known passes in the Liulian Mountains and slipped across the western frontier of the empire.
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The Arabic Storyteller Who Gave the World a Chinese Boy
The Boy in the Cave The most famous fictional Chinese boy in the European imagination was never actually Chinese.
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The Women Who Took the Stage in 1913
On a winter afternoon in 1913, in a small courtyard theatre on the south side of Qianmen, just outside the old walls of Beijing, a young woman in her early twenties was sitting at a brass mirror in the wings, applying Peking opera lianpu makeup in red and white and black.
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Britain’s Chinese Takeaway Is a Hong Kong Invention
The first Chinese takeaway in Britain — the ChangMama in Liverpool — opened in 1958, and the British Chinese takeaway tradition that became a British institution was invented by Hong Kong Cantonese immigrants.
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The Eight Cuisines Are Really Four
The standard list of Chinese regional cuisines — Lu, Chuan, Yue, Huai, Min, Zhe, Xiang, Hui — has eight entries and roughly four actual cuisines.
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Buddhism Came as a Foreign Religion and Stayed Chinese
Buddhism entered China as a foreign religion from India in the early centuries CE — the first documented Buddhist community in Luoyang dates to 65 CE — and was transformed over the next thousand years into the Chan, Pure Land, and Tiantai schools that are now recognisably Chinese.
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Porcelain Was a State Secret for Five Dynasties
For five dynasties and roughly seven hundred years, the Chinese imperial court classified the formula for true porcelain — the blue-and-white ware of Jingdezhen — as a state secret.
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Big Trouble in Little China at Forty
On Wednesday 2 July 1986, 20th Century Fox opened a strange and expensive film in 1,053 American cinemas and watched it sink.
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Ming Book of the West
Journey to the West (Xiyou ji) is usually introduced as a story about a monk, a monkey, and a road to India. That is not wrong. It is incomplete.
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Why China Is Red
If you have ever stood on the central axis of Beijing on a pale winter morning and looked at the north gate of the Forbidden City, you know the red I mean. It is not the thin, cheerful red of a London bus or a Coke can.
