It is a well-known fact that Chiang Kai-shek is steeped in the Chinese classics. One wonders, therefore, whether this famous quote from the Three Kingdoms…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 5)
Written on 29 Dec 2010, reproduced below. Lwh, 2 August 2025 Subject: Re: San Guo (part 5) Sent: Dec 29, 2010 2:50 PM San Guo…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 4)
Written on 29 Dec 2010. Lwh, 2 August 2025 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010, 07:31 Subject: Re: San Guo Yanyi (part 4) I am reading…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 3)
Written on 28 Dec 2010. Lwh, 1 August 2025 In Imperial China, there were 2 bases to claim the right to succeed to the throne.…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 2)
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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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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