No Dogs And Not Many Chinese
“No dogs and Chinese—” Does such a sign exist outside park and residential areas reserved for Westerners in the treaty port of Shanghai? In 1793,…
“No dogs and Chinese—” Does such a sign exist outside park and residential areas reserved for Westerners in the treaty port of Shanghai? In 1793,…
View More No Dogs And Not Many ChineseThis book by Gray Tuttle (hardcover 2005), a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University, argues that the West has wrongly portrayed the relations between…
View More Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China – Part 1A mother’s love knows no bounds. Under the Malaccan Sun: A Malaysian Childhood by CP Bok (published 2025) will appeal to readers who grew up…
View More Under the Malaccan SunIt 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…
View More The Three Kingdoms and Chiang Kai-shekWritten 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…
View More A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 5)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…
View More A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 4)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.…
View More A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 3)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…
View More A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 2)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…
View More A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 1)Professor Max Oidtmann wrote his book after he discovered two copybooks originally kept by the Qing ambans stationed in Lhasa between 1875 and 1900. Amban…
View More The Golden Urn – Part 3