At China’s New Museum / History Toes Party Line

by IAN JOHNSON BEIJING — At the elaborately renovated National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square, visitors interested in the recent history of the world’s fastest rising power can gaze at the cowboy hat that Deng Xiaoping once wore when he visited the United States,...

Descendents of the dragon

The people of China have a long held belief that they are descendents of the dragon, a tradition that is firmly embedded in their culture and one that is encountered across all aspects of Chinese society and in the minds of its people. Whereas in western cultures...

« The Art of War » by Sun Tzu – our favourite quotes

Sun Tzu’s seminal work “The Art of War” has been referenced for millennia not only by historians or military tacticians bot also world leaders. With such timeless advice Sun Tzu’s principles of warfare can be also applied to our modern goals for productivity! –...

Chinese characters

Cangjie(仓颉) was an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. According to legend he had four eyes and eight pupils. It was said that on the day the characters were born, Chinese heard the devil mourning and saw crops falling like...

China worries too few foreigners learning Chinese

By Ben Blanchard (Reuters) – There has been a big rise in the number of foreigners learning Chinese, but still too few are studying the language, officials said on Thursday, worried this may affect efforts to soften China’s global image. China began...