Unless you are Arundhati Roy, whose memoir on her relationship with her difficult but distinguished mom, ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ (published 2025), was reviewed…
View More When The Red Gates Opened – Part 1Tag: General China Travel Guides
The Yellow River
The Yellow River changed course drastically in 1855 during the Qing Dynasty’s Xianfeng reign. From Kaifeng, it used to flow southeast (from 1194 to 1855)…
View More The Yellow RiverTemple of Heaven in Peking – Part 1
Most people, when visiting Peking, mistake an exquisite building with a pointed roof on top of three levels of blue-glazed tiles, built on a three-level…
View More Temple of Heaven in Peking – Part 1Exploring the Majesty of the Yangtze
The Yangtze is the third longest river in the world after the Nile and the Amazon. The Yangtze is called in China merely as Cháng…
View More Exploring the Majesty of the YangtzeThe Lost Imperial Garden
The Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) started construction on 1707, in the 46th year of the Kangxi reign. It was built for his…
View More The Lost Imperial Garden1860–1912: China in visual
Here are three excellent books on China from 1860 to 1912 conveyed through photos, sketches, and postcards. The Chinese Empire is published by a Hong…
View More 1860–1912: China in visualThe Gate to China
The Gate to China: A new history of the People’s Republic and Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan is a 2021 book. Its title is a…
View More The Gate to ChinaThe record of a pilgrimage to China in search of the law
Ennin is a Japanese monk. He traveled to Tang China as part of a 651-men Japanese tribute mission to the Tang emperor in AD 838.…
View More The record of a pilgrimage to China in search of the lawThe Tang China & Japan
The record of a pilgrimage to China in search of the law. This is a 2020 reprint of a translation originally published in 1955. It…
View More The Tang China & JapanBy Han Suyin
Han Suyin sadly is not well known nowadays. But in the 1950s she was a famous writer of works on China. Here are some books…
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