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Oriental charm in Red Star Over C…Edgar Snow in a Communist base in Northern Shaanxi in 1936 Photo XINHUA In July 1936, after a number of mishaps,…
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A farewell to Rao Pingru, author …“I’m reading manuscripts while Meitang is teaching a song to our granddaughter” (above), “My …
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Hanshan: A hermit-poet from Cold …A detail from “Hanshan and Shide” (known in Japan as Kanzan and Jittoku) by the Japanese painter Hashim…
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Guangzhou’s grand history as por…The port of Canton trading with foreign merchants in the middle of the Qing Dynasty Photo: William Daniel/NATIONAL M…
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A lingering taste of Chinese call…The “Lanting Xu” (“Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion”) by Wang Xizhi …
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Toys in ancient ChinaA mahoraga in the collection of the Shenzhen Wangye Museum Photo: FILE Toys can be good company for a child. …