The Imperial Observatory: Astronomy as Statecraft In 1696, French Jesuit missionary Louis Le Comte recorded a striking scene in the […]
Gateway Between Civilizations Perched on the western edge of China’s Hexi Corridor, Dunhuang appears today as a quiet oasis town […]
The Crossroads of Cultures: Dunhuang’s Early Artistic Foundations Nestled along the ancient Silk Road, Dunhuang’s Mogao Caves became a melting […]
The Near Miss Between East and West In 97 CE, the Han Dynasty diplomat Gan Ying embarked on a historic […]
The Silk Roads and Buddhism’s Journey East The story of Buddhism’s transmission to China reads like an epic saga of […]
The Myth of Direct Contact Between Two Ancient Superpowers For decades, historians and archaeologists have searched in vain for concrete […]
The Twilight of a Founding Father In September 2010, an 87-year-old Lee Kuan Yew sat down with a New York […]
A Small Nation in a World of Giants When Singapore gained independence in 1965, it faced existential threats: a lack […]
The Precarious Birth of a Nation On August 9, 1965, a somber Lee Kuan Yew announced Singapore’s independence via radio […]
The Crossroads of 1978: China’s Search for a New Path As 1978 drew to a close, China stood at a […]
From Mediterranean to Indian Ocean: A Shift in Global Trade For centuries, the Mediterranean Sea served as the crossroads of […]
The Ancient Human Journey: Feet Before Sails Twenty thousand years ago, our ancestors emerged in East Africa, gradually spreading across […]
The Inland Origins and Early Maritime Mysteries Unlike the Mediterranean, Indian, and Mesopotamian civilizations that thrived on maritime trade, early […]
The Dawn of China’s Maritime Traditions For the ancient Chinese civilization, the vast oceans represented both a formidable barrier and […]
The Historical Backdrop: Guangzhou as a Hub of Cultural Convergence Situated at the southern edge of imperial China, Guangzhou (historically […]
The Forgotten Glory of Early Singapore Long before Sir Stamford Raffles stepped ashore in 1819, Singapore was already a significant […]
The Strategic Crossroads of Global Trade For over five centuries, the Malacca Strait has served as one of the world’s […]
The Mysterious Origins of the Saka People The Saka (known to Greeks as Scythians) emerged as a formidable nomadic confederation […]
The Dawn of the Scythian Civilization The origins of the formidable Scythian tribes trace back to the vast expanses of […]
The Nomadic Storm: Origins of the Scythian People The Scythians, known as Saka in Persian sources and Skythoi to the […]
The Birth of a Transcontinental Network The term “Silk Road” was coined in 1887 by German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen, […]
The Cradle of Central Asian Civilization Central Asia’s story is written in water. For millennia, the region’s fate has been […]
