Stories from ancient China, and whatever else comes to mind.
Xiwangmu or the Mother Goddess of the West is one of the most important and familiar deities in the
In part 2 of our mini-series on the Chinese underworld, we look at the Green Gang, an alleged offsho
The Heaven and Earth Society, a.k.a. the Hong Society, is one of the most famous underground organiz
The story of the curious and arguably proto-Socialist figure who founded a dynasty so brief that it&
The story of an expression, from its origin in the 7th century B.C. to the reason it's associat
The bloody tale of the salt merchant, failed scholar, and reasonably good poet who very nearly destr
It is often said that Taiwan came into the Chinese orbit as far back as the 3rd century. Is that tru
Of all the recent feverish discussions on the prospect of war in the Taiwan Strait, no alleged exper
The late-Ming and early-Qing literary critic Jin Shengtan was quite a character. He never advanced b
Chinese culture is stereotypically perceived as authoritarian. Although there is obviously a lot of
It's come to my attention in recent years that a certain portion of Westerners, including peopl
By tradition, a man named Cangjie invented the Chinese system of writing that is the bane of so many
Though largely forgotten in the West, during the First World War, some 140,000 Chinese went to the W
Bucephalus, the beloved horse belonging to Alexander the Great, brings to mind two famous horses fro
The Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi led a largely disappointing political career, but he left us with som
A few weeks ago, then out-going Taiwanese Premier
Completing our series on the other, lesser-known regimes that coexisted with the Song Dynasty, we lo
Continuing our series on the lesser known regimes contemporaneous with the Song Dynasty, today we lo
Continuing our series on the "other" dynasties and kingdoms and co-existed with the Song D
The period in Chinese history we typically think of as the Song Dynasty was much more complicated th
