Islam and China have created vastly underappreciated cultural fusions. Islam was introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty through ports of the southeastern coastal
Ancient Chinese thinkers developed ideas of a universe that’s holistic, highly resonant, politically centered, and within the human scale. Confucianism is an excellent example. But
Although Qin Shihuang’s tomb is probably the largest that anyone in the world has ever constructed, he did a lot of other building while unifying
This applicant for a job in the terra-cotta army was turned down. He now works as a writer. The terra-cotta warriors get lots of
In 1980 archeologists started to excavate a walled city about 40 km north of Chengdu, at a place called Sanxingdui. What they found revolutionized many
A previous article here explored Confucianism, but many Daoists have been critical of its orientation to politics. They have emphasized harmony with nature and not
The I Ching is also based on the idea of the primacy of cyclic energy flows, and it has been one of the most influential
Chinese intellectual traditions have usually considered the universe to be highly resonant and less partitioned into distinct domains, as Westerners have often emphasized. The last
Several recent articles here explored depths in Westerners’ emphasis on abstract lines and distinct objects. But neither has been a central concept in China, where
Many people in China consider the columns of Qufu’s Confucian temple’s main hall (the Palace of Great Establishment) to be the most beautiful in the