Stories from ancient China, and whatever else comes to mind.
News coming out of Mariupol in Ukraine reminds me of an episode from the Second Sino-Japanese War, w
“A man loses his horses, and yet who is to say whether it is benefit or bane?”It's a common Chi
This past Tuesday was the Qing Ming or Tomb-Sweeping Festival, one of the major holidays of Chinese
Outside of East Asia, the impression many have of Chinese culture is that Confucianism is its domina
Everyone knows his name by now. The law graduate who became a comic actor, the actor who became pres
The Ming Dynasty novel "Water Margin," a.k.a. "All Men Are Brothers," a.k.a. &qu
Let's continue our previous episode's theme of Russia.The nationalist narrative of recent
In connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the story of the 13th century invasion of the Sl
The year was 1895. The (First) Sino-Japanese War was just winding down. And news came out of Shimono
On May 30, 1626, a screaming came across the sky over Beijing, the imperial capital of Ming Dynasty
Bai Xianyong, or Pai Hsien-yung as his name is spelled in the Wade-Giles style, has been a leading l
When I was a child in Taiwan, I was told a legend about how the Lunar New Year commemorated a monste
Be warned, boys and girls, for this is a gruesome tale.We previously told the story of the founding
We've already done several episodes relating to events and personalities from the Tang Dynasty.
Tsui Hark, that maestro of Hong Kong cinema, has in recent years churned a trilogy of films set in a
On Christmas Day, Jonathan Spence, the leading light of Western sinology and my former professor, pa
The Chinese-American sci-fi fantasy writer Ken Liu draws a lot from Chinese tradition. In his short
My friend and special guest calls in from New York, and we reminisce on traveling in China as well a
The orange was originally indigenous to China, and the great poet Qu Yuan wrote an ode to the orange
Current events remind me of two stories from ancient China.First, a philosophical argument from an a
