Karl Marx? Marco Polo? Kublai Khan? Bill Gates? The list is endless. But if you think about it, one man’s legacy has by far had the biggest and longest lasting…
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There are many versions of the story about the festival’s traditional origins, food and customs. We’ll share three short stories with you, just in time for the holiday weekend! The...
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Ying Zheng came into power in the western state of Qin against a stronger alliance of seven feudal states to the east. Through a series of clever maneuvers, he conquered…
Obiwan Kenobi: Use the force, Luke. Luke Skywalker: Obiwan? You’re coming out of the closet…as a Daoist? In the final post of this series, we’d like to share our distillations of the...
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Think of Qingming Festival as a graveyard party day all over the country, when most Chinese take a mini road trip to visit deceased loved ones and pay their respects.
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The Zi Crew: Philosophers who blew everyone's mind "Pure" philosophers weren't the only thought leaders in pre-Imperial Chinese history. The legendary general Sunzi (孙子, Sūnzǐ, 544-496BC), aka Sun Tzu, created...
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The Zi Crew: Philosophers who blew everyone’s mind The man we call “Laozi” (老子, Lǎozǐ), known in the Western world as Lao-Tzu or Lao-Tse, didn’t feel the urge to document…
China’s Zi Crew personified the Hundred Schools of Thought (诸子百家, zhūzǐ bǎijiā) era of fertile intellectual expansion. For more than three centuries, as the celebrated Zhou Dynasty and its Spring…
