Things Have Changed

 I've written a couple of posts about China's Cultural Revolution (1966-76), see " We Thought Mao Was Doing A Wonderful Thing ...

Via Tanner Greer's outstanding blog, The Scholar's Stage , we learned that Japan's 2022 National Security Strategy, published o...

Josh Rogin (1) is a foreign policy opinion writer for the Washington Post, a self-declared " agnostic Democrat " and a China haw...

 I've been paying closer attention to events in China over the past year, primarily because of the convergence between what is happening...

This is the spiral approach to the Nanpu Bridge in Shanghai.  The bridge spans the Huangpu River between Puxi (the older central portion of ...

The United Postal Union (UPU) was founded in 1874, currently has 192 member countries, and is now run under the auspices of the United Natio...

During my many business trips to China, I was fortunate to get to the Great Wall north of Beijing on three occasions.  Taking a cable car up...

(from Historical Photographs of China ) A fascinating story from the BBC . . . Until recently, few photographs of pre-1970s China were...

May 16, 1966, fifty years ago today, is generally considered the day China's Cultural Revolution was initiated by Mao Tse-Tung.  Over th...

For those of you who enjoy driving, Dangerous Roads (which we've featured before ) has redesigned and greatly improved its website so ...

( Teotihuacan from wikimedia ) A Mexican archaeologist has announced the discovery of a large quantity of liquid mercury sealed in a cha...

On the night of June 3-4, 1989 the China People's Liberation Army moved to end the non-violent democracy protests that had for several w...

A quarter century of staggering change - Shanghai in 1987 and Shanghai in 2013 (from The Atlantic , by Reuters photographer Carlos Barria). ...

On Hua Shen mountain in the province of Shaanxi, China.  For more pictures of this little walk see Twisted Sifter

Riveting photos by Zhang Kechun of the Yellow River which flows through northern China.