Of course it’s not reasonable to expect commemoration or contemplation.
The “Great War” was concluded more than a century ago. How can I expect “the eleventh day of the eleventh month” to resonate somewhere so far away from where the...
Zhu Dexi (朱德熙) was a man to whom every student of the Chinese language owes a debt of gratitude; with a penchant for the analysis of grammar and rhetoric, Chinese would be a whole lot more impenetrable today were it...
You know it’s business when morsels of pink tuna piled onto a seaweed crisp come carved directly from an entire beast that’s sat chilling at the bar in front of us. Added to that are cubes of sweet mango...
Li Tianye (厉鼎毅) can be thought of as he who speeded up the Internet by a factor of 100 during the 1990s, and a man capable of giving entertaining speeches on the most mundane of technical subjects, altogether an...
I’ve spent more money than necessary, wasted too many grumpy gulps than necessary on a tea which usually fails to reward. I’ve thought altogether too much about it.
And, as well as trying to understand my problem, there’s another reason...
We now live in a not-so-brave new world. Therein, the ominous threat of an omni-potent virus can be found in every corner, while an environmental catastrophe in the making is bringing many a species to the brink of extinction.
A...
Like doing most things in China for the first time, going to an optician is a nerve-wracking experience, especially with the required language skills. The good news, however, is the standard of optometry in China is excellent, prices are...
Wan Laiming (万籁鸣) was the man who breathed life into the Monkey King, bringing Chinese animation to its heights in the 1960s and putting it at an international level for its time.
万籁鸣（万籁鸣）是为《猴王》注入生命力的人，在20世纪60年代将中国动画带到了顶峰，并将其置于当时的国际水平。
Born in Nanjing in 1900, Laiming had three...
