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ANCIENT HISTORY

An American artist in the Empress Dowager’s court

By Jeremiah Jenne February 21, 2021

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Why is it so hard to adapt the works of novelist Eileen Chang?

In this short story, writer Gu Xiang finds humanity and humor in the idiosyncrasies of elderly Chinese

The story of how Chinese punctuation evolved from the Han dynasty to today

Could China take the gold in pot-tossing and horn-clashing?

Wu Shangwei finds the motions of life through the characters met on a train ride

Writer Wang Nuonuo's imaginative take on an age-old question