Dumbo Feather

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We have stopped. A pandemic encircles the world. Many of us are either partially or entirely isolated, keeping our distances. The planes are mostly grounded, the non-essential stores are closed. The hospitals are filled with people who are sick and d

Space

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From July 4 – 28, an exhibition entitled ‘3x =∞’, related to the ‘East Asia Culture City 2019’, was on display in the Incheon Art Platform. Hosted by Incheon City and the Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, this exhibition is part of the programme

The Millions

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Fiction has the unparalleled ability to grant us insight into a character's psyche. It is therefore uniquely qualified to explore the nature of chess itself. The post Plunging Into the Infinite: How Literature Captures the Essence of Chess appeared f

The American Poetry Review

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Ecopoetry not in the sense of poetry decorated somehow with landscape—bird or snake, river or mountain—but in the radical sense of poetry that weaves consciousness and landscape together, returning the human to “nature” and the “wild,” from which we

Chicago Tribune

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Paula Saunders published "The Distance Home" to strong reviews last year, but it had percolated for decades. The book - a deeply resonant novel that explores the struggles of a Midwestern family - is autobiographical. Saunders grew up in South Dakota

Womankind

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In my final year at high school, a career adviser sat inside a makeshift caravan for a full day waiting for students to file in, one by one. “What is your passion?” he enquired. “What are your goals? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What,” he

Literary Hub

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Legend has it that the two Masters met more than once, Lao-tzu being somewhat senior to Confucius. In a probably apocryphal chapter of the later The Book of Taoist Master Zhuang, their encounters are described with a mischievously mocking Taoist sens

All About History

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Kong Fuzi, or Confucius, was born in China in 551 BCE, at a time of chaos and disorder. The Zhou dynasty that had once led with such poise and dignity was on the decline. A keen student, Confucius made it his life’s mission to inspire a spirit of hum

All About History

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When the first emperor of unified China, Qin Shi Huang, died in 210 BCE, he was placed in a tomb constructed on a fantastic scale. Alongside the famed Terracotta Warriors he was buried with alchemical secrets. It is said that inside the grave a vast

ASIAN Geographic

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It is wood. But other than its diverse physical nature, in Chinese philosophy, wood, sometimes translated as “tree”, represents the growth of matter. Wood is the first phase of wu xing, and in Taoism, its attributes are considered to be strength and

WellBeing

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What inspired you to start SuperFeast? My journey started pretty simply. I was suffering from my own health issues with candida, brain fog and exhaustion. I decided to take these health problems into my own hands since I wasn’t seeing any solutions e

India Today

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G EOPOLITICS IS A CRUEL GAME. It rewards cunning and calculating moves and punishes emotional responses. In the 21st century, as we move into an era of massive power shifts, geopolitical nimbleness will become even more critical for all countries. In

New Philosopher

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The five centuries of Chinese history leading up to 221 BCE are divided into the ‘Spring and Autumn’ period and the ‘Warring States’ period. They are also known as the era of the ‘Hundred Schools’, a time of remarkable philosophical creativity and en

ASIAN Geographic

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Bruce Lee famously said, “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip an

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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Native to Japan and South Korea, the black pine is found in environments as diverse as mountainsides and cities. Although often known as the Japanese maple, this feathery-leaved tree is native to large areas of Eastern Asia including China. A tall

Amateur Gardening

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ON this day (or at least what is believed to have been this day) in the year 105, a Chinese man named Ts’ai Lun gathered some bark from the mulberry tree, along with some bamboo, and other barks and fibres, including rags and fish nets – and ended up

Lion's Roar

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AS LONG AS BUDDHISM has existed, chanting has been one of its core practices. Originally, both recitation and chanting were used as ways to help memorize teachings, as well as expressions of commitment. Many schools of Buddhism today still chant in P

Post Magazine

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Many Americans reacted with shock last month when United States President Donald Trump, with Russia's President Vladimir Putin by his side, appeared to reject the findings of his own country's intelligence agencies in favour of a Russian denial of el

CKGSB Knowledge - China Business and Economy

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At a meeting of world leaders near Beijing in November 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech that referenced an obscure theory of economic development. “This year we have…discussed ways of leaping over the middle-income trap,” he told the

Space

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The Tree Series is a series of design projects that recreate the wooden bracket system of East Asian architecture. The purpose of the Tree Series is to analyse the traditional bracket system and to create it anew for the structure and fabrication pro

History Revealed

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http://bit.ly/JapanPod92 In this whistle-stop tour of Japan, recorded in 2020, historian and broadcaster Christopher Harding explores how Japan was forged, the feudal era of shogun and samurai, and the 20th-century conflicts that were to change it fo

Simply Crochet

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“practicing yoga, meditation and spending time in nature. Those things make me feel grounded, calm and that ‘empty space’ is essential for my creative process.” Find out more at www.isacatepillan.com and you can also follow Isa on instagram at @isaca

Travel and Leisure Southeast Asia

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WITH ITS LOFTY DOME and high renaissance lines, the four-centuries-old church of Binondo, the Minor Basilica of St. Lorenzo Ruiz, seems no different from other Spanish colonial-era churches in Manila. However, look closely and its ethnic character be

Lonely Planet

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While Tokyo is busy making the final preparations for the Olympics this summer, away from the Japanese capital lies a region where people have been testing their stamina for centuries. The pilgrimage routes of the Kumano Kodō wind through the foreste

Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition

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Feudal Japan is the setting of lots of games, but the Sengoku period is the one lots of games use (Nioh and Sekiro both do). Set in the late 1200s Kamakura period, Ghost is much earlier, near the start of Japan’s feudal era. ■

Post Magazine

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Wang Jing is so ashamed of what happened to her that, for the first hour of our conversation, at the Brooklyn district attorney's office in New York, she makes no eye contact, as if doing so will break some spell and prevent her from finishing her st

Beijing Review

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The author is professor of politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai In Poya Village in Funing County, on the southern border of Yunnan Province, just a few kilometers north of China’s border with Viet Nam, two “successors” remain, both of

The Christian Science Monitor

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Poor government, not the system, explains Western democracies’ failure to control COVID-19. Only post-pandemic reforms will win back popular trust.

Beijing Review

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6. A gold kettle with gems from the Ming Dynasty Before Beijing became the capital of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, it had faced ups and downs in its status as the first city. In the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the honor fell to Jinling

Beijing Review

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Tursunjan’s story is a telling example of how culture—and medicine—transcend borders. As a young boy growing up in Shihezi, a city in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, he was the only Uygur student in his class in high school, comi