The book Laozi was written around the sixth century BC. The author is generally believed to be Lao Dan, or...
Culture
Before Confucius, only the nobility had the right to education. He was the first figure in Chinese history to initiate...
Ren and li are the two core concepts of Confucius'doctrine about people. When his student Fan Chi asked him about...
Confucius(551-479 BC), known in China as Kongzi, given name Qiu and alias Zhongni, was a native of Zouyi(present-day Qufu in...
Human beings have only one home under the heavens. How we arrange our domestic lives and how we live together...
And you know what is currently the most serious problem facing the Beijing Opera? The xiao sheng. These are actors...
The two reigns of Yongzheng and his celebrated son Qianglong, who succeeded his father in 1736, are taken together on account...
We have now reached the culmi nating epoch of the ceramic art in China by common consent of all connoisseurs. The...
The Ming Dynasty is famous in the annals of Chinese ceramic art for having made such great advances under its...
Beginning with the Song Dynasty, which reigned from 960 to 1279, when it was overthrown by Kublai Khan, the grandson...
Much progress must have been made in the ceramic production of the province of Jiangxi. It is recorded in the...
In the Three Kingdoms period (220-265) that followed the Han Dynasty, we read of glazed celadon ware made at Luoyang...
W hile it is generally agreed that porcelain was first made in China, authorities differ widely in fixing a date for...
Porcelain was certainly invented in China. This is acknowledged in England by the adoption of the word “china” as equivalent...
In 1967, when Bruce was given the opportunity to meet the basketball giant Big Lew Alcindor, he jumped at it....
Bruce Lee had made two successful films in the East, but his ambitions still lay in the West. Even as...
In order to understand the full impact and achievement of Bruce Lee’s later life and work, it’s important to understand...
When they were working together at the Statler Hilton, Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto had talked about swordsmanship. Bruce said...
A year after beginning kung fu Bruce Lee took up dancing the cha-cha, mainly because of his interest in his...
Early Years Grace was an attractive girl, the daughter of a Chinese mother and German father. Raised as a Catholic...