Frank Hossack

Fan Zhongyan never once stood inside Yueyang Tower before writing the essay about it that every Chinese schoolchild has since memorised, working instead from a single painting his exiled friend mailed him along with a request for a few...

This day, 14 September, in 2017, China’s first biometric visa was issued by the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria. With the applicant’s face and fingerprint information thereon, biometric visas comply with the development trend of international visa technology, help improve...

Government officials renamed the entire city in 1994, dropping thirteen centuries of history as Dayong to borrow the fame of a national park most of its own residents could not yet find on a map, a decision widely credited...

Government planners closed Shaanxi's centuries-old Fu brick tea factory in 1958, ruling its supply chain too inefficient for a tea already being produced successfully in Yiyang's Anhua county since 1953, and handed the entire industry to Hunan for good. 一九五八年,政府主管部门以供应链效率低下为由,关停了陕西泾阳那座历史悠久的茯砖茶厂;而此时,湖南益阳安化早在一九五三年便已试制成功同类茶品,于是整个产业就此彻底转交湖南。 That...

This day, 13 September, in 1993, Chinese Vice Premier, Zou Jiahua, and Deputy Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic, Henryk Goryszewski, signed the “Agreement on Economic and Trade Relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic...

Villagers in Chenzhou still credit a folk healer named Su Dan with predicting, shortly before he ascended to become an immortal, that a plague would strike the following year and could be cured with well water steeped in orange...

Villagers in Jiangyong county buried the last known natural inheritor of Nüshu, He Yanxin, on 23 October 2025, closing a chapter in a script invented centuries earlier by women barred from standard Chinese literacy, who built an alphabet of...

Generals meeting at Zhijiang's airfield on 21 August 1945 accepted Japan's formal surrender in the China theatre, some ten days before the shipboard ceremony in Tokyo Bay that most history books remember instead, built around General Douglas MacArthur and...