A Cultural Crisis in Early 20th-Century China In June 1930, Japanese architect Itō Chūta proposed a collaboration between Chinese and […]
A Scholar Out of Time: The Making of an Unconventional Mind In the twilight years of China’s imperial era, as […]
A Doll’s House and the Global Feminist Awakening The year 1879 marked a watershed moment in feminist literature when Norwegian […]
A Fateful Encounter in 1897 In the autumn of 1897, the 24-year-old Liang Qichao—already a luminary of China’s reform movement—received […]
Introduction: A Rain-Soaked Revelation The summer of 1894 presented a striking tableau in Beijing’s Forbidden City. As torrential rains transformed […]
A Fateful Encounter in Canton In 1839, within the bustling foreign quarter of Guangzhou’s Thirteen Factories district, an unremarkable medical […]
Confucius and the Idealist’s Burden In the chaotic Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BCE), a wandering scholar faced repeated rejection […]
The Making of a Revolutionary Spirit Chen Tianhua’s journey began in 1875 in the rural landscapes of Xinhua County, Hunan […]
A Defining Moment in Medical Controversy In 1926, Beijing’s intellectual circles were shaken by an explosive article in the Morning […]
