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In the spring of 1949, Chinese legal scholar Yang Zhaolong helped secure the release of an estimated 10,000 …
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How a Peking Opera Master’s Wife Saved 5 Children From the Cultural Revolution (Part 2)
by Mikel DavisWhen Peking Opera master Zhou Xinfang was released from detention in 1969, his wife, Qiu Lilin, was no …
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Ancestral Virtue: From a Farming Family Came a Governor-General (Part 1)
by Mikel DavisDuring the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns of the Qing Dynasty, a prominent court minister named Tao Shu emerged …
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How a Peking Opera Master’s Wife Saved 5 Children From the Cultural Revolution (Part 1)
by Mikel Davis“Of the six children in our family, five escaped the decade of catastrophe,” Zhou Caici recalled during a …
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In 1506, during the reign of the Ming Dynasty’s Zhengde Emperor, Wang Yangming appeared to have everything a …
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Chinese CultureEditor's Pick
Bai Qi: The Qin General Whose Karmic Debt Lasted 1,400 Years
by Mikel DavisIn 257 B.C., Bai Qi, a renowned general of the ancient Chinese state of Qin, arrived at Duyou, …
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Wu Qi (440-381 B.C.) was a prominent military commander, strategist, and political reformer during China’s early Warring States …
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Monk Zhichao was a Buddhist practitioner whose life became closely associated with Mianshan, a mountain in central China’s …
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One of the best-known legends from Mianshan, a mountain in central China’s Shanxi Province, tells of a monk …
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