I recently came across the term “fighting nation” in a video. Several people who were asked on the street in China what they associated with Russia used this term (战斗民族 zhàndòu mínzú).
Kategorie: China
Believe it or not, Chinese New Year begins today – and it is the Year of the Dragon. The dragon (龍 lóng) symbolizes strength and success in Chinese culture and, especially this year, has a kind of superpowers.
The “Maoist Legacy” project is a treasure trove of digitalized documents contributing to the question of historical justice after the death of Mao Zedong. It includes a project bibliography, non-Chinese language works, magazine and newspaper articles, interviews with informants in Hong Kong, caricatures, and more.
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Western colonialism has many devastating stories to tell that still are not part of the public memory. One such story is the destruction of a center of Chinese learning in the 19th century under German occupation that dates back to the year of 1898, when the Germans occupied a bay in Shandong province.
Ein chinesischer Wissenschaftler sammelt Belege dafür, dass Ägypter am Beginn der chinesischen Zivilisation stehen könnten, wie „Foreign Policy“ berichtet. Das ist freilich eine reichlich gewagte These, die sich vielleicht niemals beweisen lassen wird. Aber angenommen, dies wäre der Fall, dann käme dieser Theorie zufolge den sog. Hyksos die Schlüsselrolle zu. Die Hyksos aber, und das Read More