Culture
The Timeless Wisdom of Sun Tzu
The philosophical depth of Sun Tzu extends far beyond military conflict.
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Culture
The Architecture of Harmony
During an era defined by fractured kingdoms, relentless violence, and the disintegration of moral authority, a solitary scholar walked the winding dusty roads of central China.
Culture
The Living Architecture of Chinese Social Life
Few words travel from Chinese into English as often, or as incompletely, as guanxi (关系). Dictionaries render it as “relationships” or “connections.” Business handbooks treat it as a networking tactic.
Culture
The Shanghai That Never Was
It opens with a gong, a dragon, and a blonde in a red-sequined dress singing Cole Porter in Mandarin.
Culture
When Shanghai Sang
In 1951, an American singer named Frankie Laine took a song to number three on the Billboard charts, a breezy love tune with an insinuating rhythm and an English lyric about a flower.
Culture
The Hollywood of the East
On the night of 7 March 1935, Shanghai’s most beloved actress went home from a farewell dinner with her colleagues, wrote two letters, took an overdose of sleeping pills, and died the following afternoon, on International Women’s Day, at the age of twenty-four.
Culture
Go and the Chinese Art of Territory
In the last week of May 2017, in the canal town of Wuzhen, a place of whitewashed walls and stone bridges that China had lately turned into the venue for its World Internet Conference, the best player alive sat down to the oldest board game on earth.
Culture
Why Chinese Websites Look So Retro
There is a fascinating contradiction at the heart of the modern Chinese internet. China is one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world.
Culture
South China Morning Post
On 30 August 1945, with Japanese personnel still occupying its office, a small group of South China Morning Post staff produced a free leaflet announcing the approaching British fleet.
Culture
Suzhou’s Gardens Hold the World in a Courtyard
The City and Its Gardeners In the southern reaches of the Yangtze delta, on a network of canals that link the Grand Canal to Lake Tai 太湖, lies the city of Suzhou 蘇州.
Culture
How the Forbidden City Encoded the Cosmos
The Emperor and His City In the spring of 1406, the Yongle emperor of Ming China issued an order that would consume the labour of perhaps a hundred thousand workers for fifteen years.
Culture
The Bells That Waited 2,400 Years
In the spring of 1978, on a low hill called Leigudun outside the city of Suizhou in Hubei, a unit of the People’s Liberation Army was doing what armies do in peacetime: flattening ground.
