The Turbulent Backdrop of Revolutionary France The summer of 1793 marked one of the bloodiest phases of the French Revolution. […]
The Rise of a Revolutionary Wordsmith Born Chen Xun’en in 1890 in Cixi, Zhejiang province—coincidentally the same hometown as Chiang […]
The Origins of a Dark Literary Tradition Japan’s literary landscape is punctuated by haunting memorial days known as “Kappa Memorial,” […]
A Child of Two Cultures Born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker entered the world […]
The Birth of a Poetic Prodigy Gu Cheng was born on September 24, 1956, in Beijing, though his family roots […]
A Scholar Born in Troubled Times The year 1640 marked the birth of Pu Songling, a man destined to become […]
The Dawn of a Legend in Tang Dynasty China Born in 709 CE during the twilight of the Kaiyuan era, […]
The Ambitious Dream of Creating a Second Earth In 1987, Discover magazine heralded what it called “the most exciting scientific […]
The Dawn of Supersonic Ambition The mid-20th century was an era of unprecedented technological optimism. As nations emerged from the […]
The Dawn of a Fateful Mission On the morning of January 28, 1986, 19-year-old Jeffrey Ault stood among the excited […]
The Pressure-Fueled Mission of Apollo 14 On February 5, 1971, the lunar module of Apollo 14 touched down on the […]
The Rise of a Soviet Hero Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934, in the small village of […]
The Golden Age of Exploration and the Call of Everest The early 20th century marked a thrilling era of human […]
The Unfathomable Depths of Earth’s Final Frontier For centuries, human ambition has stretched toward two seemingly impossible frontiers: the vastness […]
The Spark of a Revolutionary Idea On September 6, 1522, the battered remains of a once-proud ship limped into the […]
A Privileged Beginning: The Making of an Unconventional Scholar Born on January 5, 1587, in Jiangyin during the Ming Dynasty’s […]
A Nation’s High-Stakes Space Ambitions In the predawn hours of February 15, 1996, China stood at the threshold of a […]
A Pivotal Meeting on the Eve of Lunar New Year On February 13, 1991—the night before Lunar New Year’s Eve—a […]
Roosevelt’s Vision and the Birth of China’s UN Status The story of China’s United Nations membership begins not in 1971, […]
The Making of a Scientific Prodigy In the annals of China’s scientific revolution, few stories carry the emotional weight and […]
From Humble Beginnings to National Hero In 1922, a 13-year-old boy from Dalian stunned spectators at a Sino-Japanese elementary school […]
The Unexpected Allies: Japanese Soldiers in the Eighth Route Army The bitter enmity between China’s Eighth Route Army and Japanese […]
