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A Trip Through China (1917) | Blair University Archives

Step into a vanished world. A Trip Through China is a rare surviving fragment of Benjamin Brodsky’s ambitious ten-reel travelogue, filmed across China in the mid-1910s and original...

Ancient China laws punished men for crying; people with messy handwriting forced to drink ink

Ancient China’s legal system was never only about crime and punishment. It was also a mechanism of imperial control, used to protect the throne, discipline officials and regulate s...

How China Became the First Airtight Empire

Beijing rewrote two slogans before it sealed the country – once to rewrite history, once to prewrite the future.

2 notable women in ancient China broke barriers, made major contributions to medicine, science

In ancient China, women were largely denied formal education and confined to the roles of dutiful wives and mothers. Against this restrictive social order, two women pushed beyond...

Ancient Chinese Wedding Rituals the Modern World Left Behind

Walk into almost any Chinese wedding today and you will see white gowns, Western style vows, and a bouquet toss, customs that now feel ordinary even though they were once entirely...

Centuries ahead of Wall Street: how China’s Song dynasty pioneered global fiat currency

At least gold glitters. Long before the first paper banknotes fluttered through the financial houses of Europe, the bustling markets of 11th century China birthed an unprecedented...

How gossip spread in ancient China before advent of printing when newspapers reported on scandals

Long before social media and camera lenses, ancient China had its own “paparazzi” who wielded ink, paper and a sharp tongue to unsettle the lives of the powerful. In those days, go...

Women sumo wrestling was popular pastime in ancient China until rise of Confucian ethics

In ancient China, women’s sumo was a popular form of entertainment in which participants wore minimal clothing that exposed their arms, backs, navels and lower abdomens, drawing si...

Ancient China elites used water fans, ice to cool down in summer; folks had bamboo pillows

In ancient China, summer heat could be deadly long before the advent of air conditioning. To survive it, people resorted to remedies ranging from imperial ice sculptures and water-...

Why China is always misunderstood and misrepresented

Why didn’t China develop its own scientific and industrial revolutions when it made so many discoveries and advances over millennia? That is often called “Needham’s question”, name...

Why Japan’s Culture of Cleanliness Traces Back to China’s Tang Dynasty

From Buddhist temples to Shinto shrines to modern school cleaning duties, the philosophy that sweeping is spiritual practice traveled from 7th-century China to Japan to Taiwan

Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, wanted an elixir that could help him live forever. Ancient…

Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, wanted an elixir that could help him live forever. Ancient...

From Confucius to Tsinghua: Trump invokes history to anchor China-US future

Against the backdrop of ceremonial grandeur at the Great Hall of the People on Thursday, US President Donald Trump leaned on centuries of shared history to set the stage for the fu...

A Tang spring that survived an emperor’s flight

A visitor standing before The Court Lady Guoguo’s Spring Outing does not first see history. They see movement. There is no palace. No riverbank. No flowering tree. No painted sprin...

CCP Rewrites Hong Kong History in Museum Reopening

Analysts say the changes reflect the Chinese Communist Party’s effort to replace Hong Kong’s original historical understanding with its own narrative, downplaying colonial-era conf...

The Christian Church in mainland China since 1949

The history of the Christian Church in mainland China since 1949 is a story characterised by times of dramatic upheaval, near destruction and martyrdom, and unexpected revival.

Over 250 rare Han dynasty relics on display in major Hong Kong showcase

A major exhibition featuring more than 250 sets of Han dynasty relics – most of which have never been displayed in Hong Kong – is offering a rare look into one of the most influent...

Can China team’s Greek dig unveil an untold truth in ancient world history?

Chinese archaeologists have started work on a joint excavation project at a site in Greece that may help answer some increasingly popular questions in China about the roots of anci...

The Way of Tea: How It Became More Than Just a Drink in Ancient China and Japan

From the tea banquets of ancient China to the minimalist ceremonies of Japan, the 'Way of Tea' has evolved into far more than a cultural tradition

Ming Dynasty Master Qiu Ying’s ‘Spring Morning in the Han Palace’ — A Masterpiece of Chinese Court Painting

Qiu Ying: a professional painter who rose from poverty to the top of Chinese art Qiu Ying (c. 1494–1552), courtesy name Shifu and sobriquet Shizhou, was born in Taicang, Jiangsu pr...

The Great Wealth Transfer: Is China Quietly Becoming an Inherited Society?

A historic transfer of wealth is quietly taking shape in China that’s unprecedented in scale, rapid in pace, and unfolding within a largely undefined institutional framework. At th...

Sima Yi’s and the Art of Endurance: How Patience and Restraint Won an Empire

Sima Yi’s rise during the Three Kingdoms era was not driven by bold conquest alone, but by patience, restraint, and an ability to learn from failure — qualities that ultimately all...

Hidden Chinese history of Australia’s gold rush is going global

Taiwanese pop music superstar Jay Chou, known in Mandarin as Zhou Jielun (周杰倫), has put Australia’s Sovereign Hill on the map. A nationally renowned tourist attraction in Golden...