The campaign to replace traditional characters with a phonetic system reflected Chinese society’s desire for change during the 20th century
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In the early 20th century, China tried to ban its millennia-old lunar calendar in the name of modernity—with mixed success
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Discover China’s favorite swear words and their cultural contexts
Literary-minded social media posters are adapting famous works for the Covid-19 era
Chinese netizens have become experts at “feihua wenxue”: using superfluous language to get out of any awkward situation
How “Mandarin Duck and Butterfly,” a romantic literary movement from early 20th century China, became forgotten in the tides of modernization
The story of how Chinese punctuation evolved from the Han dynasty to today
China's imperial exams were a hotbed for fraud
Shaoxing has long been a magnet for China's most famous poets, writers, and now tourists
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