The Ink Plum Blossom: Painting Turned Poetry
When Painting Speaks and Poetry Draws: The Aesthetics of 题画诗 tíhuàshī There is a famous maxim expre…
Administering Justice Beneath the Wild Pear Tree
There is a fascinating image from the 周 Zhōu dynasty in China, more than three thousand years ago: …
Ascending the Stork Tower
Why Has a Twenty-Character Poem Endured for Thirteen Centuries? The poem《登鹳雀楼》Dēng guàn què lóu, &…
When Football Speaks in Literary Chinese: The 贺炜 Hè Wěi Phenomenon
文言文 Wényánwén as an Active Substrate of Modernity Studies on the evolution of the Chinese languag…
The Glance that Destroys Kingdoms
Cinematic Echoes and the Archaeology of a Trope In the celebrated "Echo Game" sequence fr…
What is a Chinese Character?
Rethinking 汉字 hànzì : Beyond the Pictographic Myth There is a widespread notion—frequently repeate…
太虚 Tàixū. Humanistic Buddhism for the 21st Century
A Buddhist monk who lived through tumultuous times stands a…
The Lament of a Political Ruin
In the contemporary lexicon, the expression 倾城 qīngchéng , …
The 商 Shāng Dynasty (1600–1046 BCE)
China's first dynasty, the 夏 Xià dynasty, ruled for nea…
The Echo of the Ocean and the Awakening of a Nation. 陈天华 Chén Tiānhuá
On December 8, 1905, the cold waters of Omori Beach in Toky…
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