Written on Boxing Day 2010. Lwh, 31 July 2025 Subject: Re: San Guo (part 2) Sent: Dec 26, 2010 3:15 PM Sao guo yanyi is…
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Month: July 2025
A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 1)
On Christmas Eve 2010, I began reading about the Three Kingdoms. I sent out by email my jottings on my reading, relating it to philosophy…
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China’s Restless Heartland
Why do some peasants in China rebel? Why did rebellions occur more often in certain areas, like the bandits of the Shantung marshes, the pirates…
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St. Matthew Passion
The proverb “He who lives by the sword dies by the sword” and the idiom “washed his hands off the matter” come from the rich…
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The Empire’s Last Crime Scene
A British girl was murdered in Peiping (now Peking) around midnight next to the Tartar City walls in January 1937. Her face was brutally mutilated,…
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Hiroshige
Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road by Alfred Haft is a 2025 book by the British Museum published to accompany the exhibition at the British…
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Butterfly Lovers Erhu Concerto
The “Butterfly Lovers” (Liangzhu) was originally composed in 1959 by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao as a violin concerto. It became world famous as it…
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Ukiyo-e, Pictures of the Floating World—Part 3
Unlike a Western painting masterpiece, one can find many different prints of a famous Ukiyo-e woodblock print. There is the first edition and later editions.…
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Ukiyo-e, Pictures of the Floating World—Part 2
It is important to know that a woodblock print is not the sole effort of the artist, Hiroshige or Hokusai, whose name appears on it.…
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Ukiyo-e, Pictures of the Floating World—Part 1
Popular during the Edo period (1615–1868), Ukiyo-e is a term for the beautiful Japanese art of woodblock prints of nature, landscapes, and people. Ukiyo-e literally…
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