People
Qiu Jin Refused to Be the Decoration
Bound feet and all, the daughter of a Zhejiang merchant family became the most famous anti-Qing revolutionary of 1907.
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History
The Maid Who Rode West on the Silk Road
The daughter of China’s most distinguished calligrapher was captured by a steppe khan in 195 CE and returned twelve years later with two long laments that became the founding texts of the autobiographical tradition in Chinese poetry.
People
Ching Shih Commanded the Red Flag Fleet
A former Cantonese waterfront prostitute turned pirate commander, Ching Shih controlled more than a thousand junks and seventy thousand pirates along the South China coast in the 1800s — and retired on her own terms to run a gambling house.
People
Li Qingzhao Wrote the Best Chinese Poetry
Of the hundreds of poets who worked the ci lyric form in the Song dynasty, one has survived as the form’s most quoted voice — and the only one most readers outside the period can name.
People
The Concubine Who Outranked Sons
In 690 a former low-ranking palace attendant of the Tang dynasty took the dragon throne in her own name — the only woman ever to rule China as emperor proper — and for fifteen years reshaped the dynasty’s religion, court politics, and official record-keeping.
Science & Tech
China Built the World’s Biggest Telescope on Purpose
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope — FAST, nicknamed Tianyan — sits in a natural karst basin in Guizhou, its 4,450-panel dish covering an area the size of thirty football fields.
Science & Tech
China Teaches Its Robots to Walk
On 19 August 2026 Unitree Robotics began trading on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the first company built around humanoid robots to list on China’s mainland exchanges.
Economy
How Hon Hai Became Foxconn
On 20 February 1974, in a rented shed in Tucheng, a rough suburb of Taipei whose name means earth city and which American reporters later translated as Dirt City, a twenty-three-year-old shipping clerk started a plastics firm.
History
Origins of China
The idea of China as a single continuous civilisation is both deeply compelling and fundamentally misleading if taken too literally, because what we now call China is not a natural unit that existed from the beginning…
History
Sino-Annam History
For more than two thousand years, what we now call Vietnam lived in China’s shadow and at times inside its borders, and that long entanglement is what the old phrase Sino-Annam history is trying to capture.
Places
The Cities China Hid in the Mountains
There is a city in Sichuan where the steelworks came before the city itself.
Places
City of Eight Dynasties
There is no single building you can point to and call “Kaifeng Gate” today and have that name cover the whole story.
