Monthly Archives: June 2009
Opium War
The Opium War (1840-1842), also called the Anglo-Chinese War, was the most humiliating defeat China ever suffered. From the end of the 18th century, the English kept trafficking opium into China. This trade had produced, quite literally, a country filled with drug addicts, as opium parlors proliferated all throughout China in the early part of [...]
Sunzi’s Art of War
Sun Zi Bing Fa(Sunzi’s Art of War) is the world’s earliest military book extant in China. Militarists have paid much attention to the book ever since. It is said that after Napoleon was defeated in war, he regretted that he had not read this book earlier. After the Song Dynasty (960-1279), it was listed as [...]
Chinese Opera – Kunqu
Kunqu Opera ranks among the most splendid and miraculous cultural art forms created by the Chinese people in their long history. Ever since it came into being at the district of Kunshan near Suzhou in the mid-14th century, Kunqu has been artistically refined over a period of 200 years and has stood out prominently among [...]
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