Inhabitants in this isolated pocket of northwest China may not have heard of the women’s liberation movement that took Western society by storm in the 1960s. But perhaps they do not need to. In a reversal of traditional Chinese roles between genders, women in Kangxian county, Gansu province have traditionally been dominant, with husbands assuming […]
China’s new variety of hybrid rice, called Xiang Liangyou 900, has become the highest-yielding one in the world, said a report by Science and Technology Daily recently. The pilot three plots of rice fields in Handan, Hebei province, yielded 17.2 tons per hectare on average, according to a group of agricultural experts who measured the […]
This imperial writing will last forever: it is carved in stone. Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Emperor Jiaqing’s inscriptions were found on a large stone tablet at Ruyuan Garden, the best preserved garden site at the Yuanmingyuan (Old Summer Palace) ruins. Below the inscriptions were two seals, one featuring an imperial jade seal. Some of the inscriptions are buried […]
A joint editorial committee of scholars from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea is writing a new history textbook to resist efforts to white-wash Japan’s militaristic past. The committee has published two books: The Contemporary and Modern History of Three East Asian Countries in 2005 and A Modern History of East Asia Beyond the […]
Egypt returned 13 pieces of smuggled ancient antiques, including ancient banknotes and bonds dating back to late 19th century, to China recently. The Ministry of State of Antiquities turned over coins, banknotes and bonds to the Chinese embassy in Cairo in a ceremony held in the Egyptian museum, according to Egyptian website Al Arabiya English. […]
“I know your kind …” spat out a middle-aged Hispanic man at me, many years ago inside a Walmart superstore deep in the heart of South Texas. My head snapped back with a ready retort, “Oh yeah, and what kind is that?” I regretted engaging as soon as I realized that he is so not […]
Between 307 and 314 during the Western Dynasty (265-316 AD), the Central Plains straddling the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River was in turmoil. Liu Min Yuan (劉敏元) and his townmate Guan Ping (管平), who was over 70 years old, fled from Qi (齊, in today’s Shandong province) toward the west. When they reached Xing Yang […]
Rodrigo Duterte came to power vowing to rid the country not only of illegal drugs and criminality but also corruption in government. In fact, he has sacked Cabinet members and government officials whenever he hears derogatory information about them, such as using their positions to broker deals or exert undue influence. The two people the […]
The Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group said three more Chinese were reportedly kidnapped after failing to pay their debts to loan sharks in casinos. Supt. Glicerio Cansilao, chief of the AKG investigation unit, said the cases were reported by anti-crime watchdog Movement for Restorationn of Peace and Order. Teresita Ang See, founding chairperson of MRPO, […]
Editor’s Note: Many of these terms have been lost through time. We reprint this to remind readers about our rich rice heritage. A s early as 1915, about 1,200 varieties of rice were recognized (of which 991 were found to be distinct varieties), consisting in general of two major types – the hard grain (which […]