Flood in China: water over Wanshan Bridge 万善桥 on Yaodu River 尧渡河 in Dongzhi County, Anhui province. .. The Wanshan Bridge was built by Zhou Xuexi in…
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Flood in China: water over Wanshan Bridge 万善桥 on Yaodu River 尧渡河 in Dongzhi County, Anhui province. .. The Wanshan Bridge was built by Zhou Xuexi in…
Was Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) the first man to bring soybeans to U.S. and was Henry Ford’s $39,000 soybean suit the costiest? Beancurd, or tofu (doufu 豆腐)…
When USS Hornet is mentioned, most people think about the Dolittle Raid of Tokyo in 1942 by USS Hornet. But there was an earlier USS…
The covid-19 pandemic is still spreading, I thought about Michael Lewis’ 2016 book, The Undoing Project, where he included the Asian disease problem: say, there…
In early 2019, a new term in the President Trump’s trade war with China caught my attention: “enforcement measures”. When the Phase One trade deal was…
Liu Shijia was my Great-Great-great grandfather · 刘世家公是我的六世祖. Liu Shijia 刘世家 1795-1869 + Lady Hu (1793-1880) Liu Jingyun 刘景赟 1818-1878 Liu Jingxian 刘景贤 Bingzhang 秉璋; 1826-1905 Liu Tiqian 刘体乾 1873-1932…
The Russian embassy in Beijing posted this message on their Weibo today, celebrating 160 years anniversary of Vladivostok. Here is the 8:10 min video. My first…
Lao Gan Ma (old godmother) chilli sauce is very popular, inside and outside of China, and for a while it was in my refrigerator too.…
Becoming a farmer! One of many things and foods I tried during this covid-19 pandemic is to grow my own stuff: oyster mushroom stick I…
The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, by Sir John Francis Davis, esq. F.R.S. etc., had two volumes published…