Culture
The Secret China Kept for Three Thousand Years
In the year 16, the Roman Senate passed a law about cloth. No man, the senators decreed, should any longer disgrace himself by wearing silk.
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Culture
The Library in the Sand at Dunhuang
In 1900 a caretaker at a half forgotten Buddhist cave complex in the Gobi Desert chipped through a sealed wall and found a library that had not been opened for nine centuries.
Culture
Jingdezhen Built a City of Clay and Fire
For centuries, Jingdezhen did something more consequential than make beautiful porcelain.
Culture
Why Chinese Has Two Official Scripts
A mainland newspaper and a Hong Kong magazine can carry the same news in the same spoken Mandarin, but the printed characters look like two different languages. The mainland page reads 报纸, the Hong Kong page reads 報紙.
Culture
How Ne Zha Remade Chinese Animation
Chinese cinema has produced many expensive spectacles. Few have changed what audiences expect from a Chinese cartoon. The Ne Zha films did.
Culture
Christopher Lee’s Cold War Fu Manchu
Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu was already half a century old when Christopher Lee put on the makeup.
Culture
Foreign Devil Talk Was China’s Countervailing Fear
Western Yellow Peril stories cast China as an organised threat to white civilisation. Chinese “foreign devil” language ran the insult the other way.
Culture
Fu Manchu Taught Westerners to Fear China
Sax Rohmer did not invent Western fear of China. He packaged it.
