Tesla CEO and newly-minted world’s richest person Elon Musk sparked debate after posting an ancient Chinese quatrain on Twitter and Weibo. The reference: Musk shared the English word “Humankind” and ...

Angel Island Immigration Station was built in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay mainly to process immigrants from China, Japan, and other countries on the Pacific Rim. Its primary mission was to better ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...

“SPRING LANDSCAPE”, a poem written over 1,000 years ago, is one of China’s most celebrated literary works. Composed by the 8th Century Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, it is memorised by every schoolchild in ...

EZRA POUND, an American modernist, described poetry as “news that stays news”. The versions of classical Chinese poetry he published in “Cathay” in 1915 were a declaration that, in a world of Model ts ...

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In 1923, not long after returning from working as a correspondent in Moscow, becoming the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and translating “The Internationale” for the first time into ...