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How Louis Vuitton Sued a Pub and Won

As one of the world’s most influential fashion companies, Louis Vuitton has a number of world-famous trademarks specialising in the manufacture and sale of leather goods, clothing, jewelry and many more. For more than 150 years, the firm has...

Episode 2B – Confucius and the Mohists: A Challenge from Above (cont.)

Previously: “My poor cherries,” Kongzi moaned, then hesitating a moment. “And why would the neighbours want to see the lake, they have nothing to contemplate. ‘Tian-a’, they couldn’t even see the Dao if it was before their noses.” While...

Going with the Float

Twenty days was all they had between receiving the order and presenting an initial proposal. That’s not all that long when you’ve just been asked to design the Jiangsu float that will be a part of the Tiananmen parade...

The Role Played by Character in China’s Legal System

Most people associate character with moral qualities but the definition also includes non-moral characteristics, behavioural tendencies and patterns of life, things with nothing to do with morality; being mindful of others, shyness or a fondness for cats, etc. Is...

A Royal Success; The Largest Exhibition of Chinese Art Ever

The largest exhibition of Chinese art of all time was not, as one might expect, held in China. Nor was it a recent affair. Beginning on 28 November, 1935, the Royal Academy in London held a monumental exhibition displaying over...

Episode 2A – Confucius and the Mohists; A Challenge from Above

With such confidence that he had found the way to the true Dao, you can imagine the consternation with which Kongzi would have viewed the emergence of competing ideologies. Many of the ideas in early Chinese thought exhibit close...

AI Face Swapping; the Legalities of Personal Data Security

We are now fully immersed in an information society, in which we discover new business and social opportunities that in turn rely on the large amount of data which has been created from our usage, a process in which...

Episode 1B; A Confucian Morning (cont.)

Previously: “You can bring the tea, Xunzi”, Kongzi says speaking as though addressing the open window. “Right away master”, Xunzi hurries out again, giving his companion who has been waiting at the door a sickly leer. Here it is...

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