The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon provided several interesting measurements of the human body. They’re precise and diverse and thus don’t seem to have been derived
Shigehisa Kuriyama, in The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine, wrote that ancient Greeks appreciated bodies that had a
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, in Philosophy in the Flesh; The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought, wrote that many concepts that people
A common definition of emotion according to Western Psychology is: A psychological system that appraises internal or external, context-related causes in terms of their significance
I thought I’d cause a little trouble while I was in Egypt. I knew that this story would mess with my Cairo guide’s head.
You always make it there, you make it anywhere. If Frank Sinatra had lived in the eighth century, he would have been strutting around Chang’an,
I had read about guys like this in books on Chinese art, but I was surprised that there were so many of them when I
After China’s Han dynasty disintegrated in the early third century CE, a succession of warlords became emperor wannabes, but their rules were short lived. Turkic-speaking
A lot of people have heard of Nanjing because of the massacre in 1937-8. But the city has a rich history that goes back
Yunnan’s Erhai Lake has been multicultural for centuries. It was the center of the fabled Nan Chao kingdom, which presided over much of northern