Traditional Chinese thought treated natural disasters as moral signals rather than accidents of nature. Seen as Heaven’s warnings, …
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At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) lived an unusually gifted blind man from Sichuan named …
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Heaven’s Wrath: How Ancient Chinese Rulers Responded to Natural Disasters (Part 1)
by Mikel DavisIn the past decade or so, different disasters have been occurring in mainland China one after another, and …
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Learning From History: How the Ancient Chinese Responded to Plagues and Disasters
by Mikel DavisThe recent pandemic is, without a doubt, one of the greatest catastrophes we have experienced in our lifetimes. …
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Here Live Only Sparrows is a photo series on China’s vanishing villages that is beautifully and quietly observed. …
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A few years ago, Hong Kong people started talking about a “Hong Kong nationality.” While there is no …