Frank Hossack

Song dynasty court rivals had the poet Su Shi banished to Huizhou in 1094 after years of factional infighting at court; over the nearly three years that followed, he helped finance two bridges by donating an imperial rhinoceros-horn belt,...

Two European missionaries introduced football to a mountain valley in Wuhua county in 1873, cutting goalposts from timber for the schoolboys they taught; more than a century later, the spot they chose is officially recognised as where modern football...

Guangdong officials in 2011 created a special cooperation zone from four towns in Shanwei's Haifeng county. Shenzhen subsequently planned to relocate some 4,000 lower-end industrial projects there as it cleared polluting, energy-intensive and other lower-end industry from its own...

This day, 28 September, in 1952, Mongolian Prime Minister, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, led a delegation to visit China and became the first foreign head of government to do so since the founding of PRC. He received a high-level reception, with...

Construction workers repairing a road through the middle of Heyuan in 2015 stopped their machinery halfway through the job after uncovering 43 fossilised dinosaur eggs buried beneath the road, 19 of them still completely intact. 二零一五年,一队正在河源市中心修路的工人,在施工过程中意外挖出四十三枚恐龙蛋化石,不得不停下机械设备;其中十九枚保存完整。 Even the museum built to...

A Sino-British salvage team searching for a completely different, Dutch East India Company wreck stumbled instead in 1987 upon a Song dynasty merchant ship that had lain buried beneath the seabed off Yangjiang for more than 800 years. 一九八七年,一支本欲寻找荷兰东印度公司沉船的中英联合打捞队伍,却意外发现了一艘在阳江外海海床下埋藏逾八百年的宋代商船。 Archaeologists ultimately...

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that a ¥24.9 primer copies the packaging of its own ¥540 product; the case is due in a Shanghai court on...

Historical tradition in Qingyuan links a single riverside gorge to four of the most consequential figures in the history of Chinese Buddhism, whose lives spanned more than two centuries of the religion's development in China and beyond. 清远当地的历史传说,将一处江畔峡谷,与中国佛教史上四位举足轻重的人物联系在一起,他们的一生,跨越了佛教在中国及其以外地区发展的两百余年。 Bodhidharma, traditionally regarded...