From ancient times to the present day, people have held a special sentiment for the divine and naturally revere the divine and Buddhas; therefore, people around the world worship divine statues. When the divine sees people’s genuine intentions, they are often helped and safeguarded from dangers and calamities. Conversely, retribution brought on by the blasphemy of ...
The much-criticized communist regime of Chairman Mao Zedong in China left scars in the minds of millions of people who grew up during that period of history. A Virginia woman who spent her young years under Mao’s regime has lashed out at critical race theory saying it is nothing more than a U.S. version of ...
That period of modern history from 1963-1976, known as the so-called Cultural Revolution, is typical of how communists appropriate, twist, and corrupt the true meaning of language. It was the antithesis of culture. If anything, it really should be called the Barbaric Cultural Demolition, or some such name. Not only was it a time of ...
Liang Qichao, a philosopher, politician, educationalist, historian, and writer in China, had nine children, and all of them were talented and successful. Liang Qichao, a native of Xinhui, Canton, was a successful candidate in the imperial examinations at the provincial level. At the time, Li Yunyun, the chief examiner of the court, was also the ...
Rong’s enterprise during the Republic of China (1912-1949) was a household name. Rong Zongjing and Rong Desheng founded more than 20 private enterprises in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai, and other locations. These enterprises were mainly in the cotton milling and flour industries, so they became known as “the king of cotton yarn” and “the king of ...
Xin Fengxia (January 26, 1927 – April 12, 1998), was a Chinese Pingju opera star, performer, actress, and founder of the China Pingju Institute. Pingju is known as Northern Opera in dance and song format. Known as the “Queen of Pingju,” she pioneered her own style, which has become one of the most important and ...
From 1957 to 1959, Tibetans took up arms to fight the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but the Tibetans were brutally suppressed. Again, during the Cultural Revolution, the CCP launched a killing campaign across Tibet. The first group to be killed were the “insurgents.” In early February 1970, the Lhasa people were called to Lhasa Stadium ...
Mr. Wu Ningkun, an acclaimed Chinese translator and an Anglo-American literary research expert, passed away at the age of 99 on August 10, 2019, in the United States. He is best known for his Chinese translation of The Great Gatsby, a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his memoir about a shattered Chinese dream ...
Jung Chang, who was born during the tumultuous period, witnessed the horrors of the Cultural Revolution firsthand and later wrote a book that became a global bestseller — Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. In the 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a movement to uproot capitalism and traditionalism from ...
The following excerpt, Chapter 2: A Floating Life, is from the novel The Shanghai Friendship Store by Susan Ruel. It chronicles the experiences of a small foreign community living in Shanghai in the 1980s (the heyday of Friendship Stores), shortly after the Cultural Revolution. These state-run Friendship Stores first appeared in China in the 1950s and initially ...
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