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On this Day in Chinese History; 22 June

This day, 22 June, 1979, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Ireland established diplomatic relations. Ireland has since benefitted greatly from its relationship with China, to the extent of marking the diplomatic relations’ anniversary in 2019...

On this Day in Chinese History; 21 June

This day, 21 June, in 1956, the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China announced that 1,017 Japanese war criminals would be exempted from prosecution and released back to Japan in batches. 45 war criminals gulty of particularly serious crimes were...

On this Day in Chinese History; 20 June

This day, 20 June, in 2016, President Xi Jinping and Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda jointly attended a ceremony marking the arrival of the first China-Europe Railway Express in Warsaw, Poland. Demand for freight along the route has significantly...

On this Day in Chinese History; 19 June

This day, 19 June, 1931, Pearl Buck’s novel “The Good Earth” was published. Translated in to more than 100 languages and distributed worldwide, the novel  won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, while Buck herself won the Nobel...

On this Day in Chinese History; 18 June

This day, 18 June, in 1978, at the invitation of the Pakistani government, Vice Premier Geng Biao led a Chinese government delegation to attend the completion ceremony of the Karakoram Highway. Together, tens of thousands of engineers and labourers...

Nature, Nurture, Psychopaths; Made or Born that Way?

The dichotomy of the “nature vs. nurture” debate has been a key topic of conversation within the realm of psychology and philosophy for centuries on end. How, you may ask, do genetics and/or our environment contribute to the development...

Looking up; At China’s Cultural Incongruities

It seems almost unfashionable now to point out that China's rapid modernisation over the past few decades has led to some intriguing cultural incongruities, where ancient traditions coexist almost symbiotically with contemporary lifestyles. But it’s still one that fascinates...

Theories of Humour; Incongruity Resolution

Have you ever asked yourself, “What’s the funniest joke in the world?” Well, Richard Wiseman, holder of Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire has for his experiment Laugh Lab, 2002. He created the...
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