Hi, welcome to the "Chinese History in 5 minutes" series. Today's video talks about characteristics of diverse literatures in different epochs from pre-Qin period, Han dynasty, Tang dynasty, Yuan dynasty, to Qing dynasty, with representatives such as "Poet Immortal" Li Bai，&...

Popular Chinese costume drama Empresses in the Palace (2011), which tells the story of a girl's survival amid jealous intrigue and betrayal within the imperial palace walls, was recently thrust back into the spotlight after a 15-minute remake of the TV series starring 16 retirees with an average...

Confucius has said that one should know the mandate of heaven upon turning 50. But Feng Tang seems to have known what heaven mandated him to do long ago. When he had just emerged as a young writer two decades ago, he said: "I owe 10 novels to heaven."In China's literary circle, Feng is...

Wen Yang's new book, The Logic of Civilization: The Interaction and Evolution of Chinese and Western Civilization.Book argues China cannot be judged through the prism of Western standards, David Paul Goldman writes.China's 5,000-year-old civilization cannot be understood by Western cri...

A handful of rice, a piece of paper, a red thread and a cob of corn are turned into pieces of eye-catching art under Wei Shangsheng's ingenious maneuvers.Different from many art forms carrying abstract and abstruse themes that might have the audience scratching their heads in search of implied m...

A new novel,Xuanniaozhuan(the legend of Xuanniao) by Zhang Ning, has recently been published by Guangxi Normal University Press.Xuanniao is a legendary bird fromThe Classic of Mountains and Seaswho pursued an idealistic life and represented a spiritual freedom.Starting in the 1980s...

Scholar's latest book investigates the influence of the unique individuals acting as cultural mediators on the outcome of the Macartney Embassy, the first British diplomatic mission to China in the 1700s, Yang Yang reports.In the early autumn of 2008, Henrietta Harrison, a scholar of Chinese his...

Song Taizong, the Emperor of Song Dynastywas recently published by Guangdong People's Publishing House.The book was written by Zhang Qifan, a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Culture and History at Jinan University and a renowned contemporary expert in Song (960-1279) history.Zhong W...