Life of Old Beijing in Illustration
Each year from the early autumn on, there were roasted sweet potato stalls emerging in Beijing's trading centres and hutongs…
Mythical Creatures in Classics of Mountains and Seas
Classics of Mountains and Seas (山海经) is a collection of Chinese mythology, geography and medicine compiled about 3,000 to 2,500…
The Gobi Desert Around Dunhuang Grottoes
The lakes disappeared for more than 300 years from the Gobi Desert around Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province in China's…
Feng Zikai, China’s First Comic Painter
Feng Zikai (1897-1975) was China’s first and one of the best comic artists, as well as a highly accomplished writer,…
Golden Rooster Film Awards 2019
Golden Rooster Awards (金鸡奖), created in 1981, is the most prestigious film award in the Chinese language world. While this…
Chinese Organizations Funded by NED
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization with its fund primarily via an annual…
Daxing International Airport – the Biggest Airport in the World
The project employed 65 new technologies, obtained 103 patents and broke over 40 world records. The acceptance criteria have been…
Evolution of Chinese Wedding Photos in the Past 120 Years
A couple in traditional Chinese wedding costume of Ming Dynasty-style pose for a wedding photo in Beijing Forbidden City.
Ancient Water Town Qiandeng in Kunshan
Most traditional Chinese towns would have at least one shopping street with the street front on the ground floor for…
Changes in Ordinary Chinese Homes in the Past 70 Years
China in the 1950s: Typical Chinese factory workers' homes in big cities.
The Chinese Mountain Climbers
The Climbers is a 2019 Chinese blockbuster adventure film based on real-life events happened in the mid-last century. The film…
Transformation of Shanghai in the Past 70 Years
Shanghai in 1955, an ordinary docker’s home. Shanghai in 1956, factory workers practising dragon dance. Shanghai in 1956, two ladies…
The Hong Kong Problems
Hong Kong’s Problem with Its Educational System Hong Kong’s educational and legal systems are in a big mess and the…
A Hong Kong Funeral
Immediately after the casket was the direct family members, led by the eldest son of the deceased. All the family…
Hong Kong Before 1997
Hong Kong, a Chinese port city initially part of Guangdong Province, was lent to Britain as its colony by a…
Mt Huashan, a Daoist Mountain in China
Mt. Hua is formed with rocky hills, so the most Daoist temples are built either on the cliff faces or…
Selected Classic Chinese Quotations
The words one speaks going forth contrary to his claimed ethics will come back to catch up with him sooner…
Terrace of Lion – A Kung Fu Man and A Treacherous Woman
Wu Song, one of the 36 major characters in the classical Chinese novel Water Margin, was an accomplished kung fu…