What is the electricity that flows through the body that allows salamanders to grow new legs, and young children grow new finger tips? Is it the same thing that the Chinese call Qi? Dan Keown’s witty and original book, The Spark in the Machine, shows how western medicine validates the theories of Chinese medicine, and […]
Liao Dynasty The Chinese Art Book brings a new introduction to the art of one of the world’s oldest civilisations. A collaboration of 300 artworks from the Neolithic period to the 21st century, The Chinese Art Book opens the door to 6000 years of Chinese art. Ancient, modern and contemporary works are positioned for the first time […]
Nowadays, looking through the estate agency job adverts, especially in London, it’s quite common to see firms seeking to recruit staff who are fluent in Mandarin or Cantonese. Having personnel on your team who can connect culturally with clientele; understanding their language and traditions, right through to superstitions attached to buying certain property has proved […]
The fine art of preparing and drinking tea has become a hallmark of Chinese civilisation, handed down through the ages in China by monks and martial artists, doctors and hermits, emperors and alchemists. In his latest book, Daniel Reid explores Chinese tea in its manifold varieties, its long and colourful historical development in China, and […]
PP Wong is Editor-in-Chief of Banana Writers, a website that encourages and supports new Asian writers from over thirty countries. She has a degree in Anthropology and Law from The London School of Economics and has been touted as “The first British born Chinese novelist to secure a publishing deal in the UK.” Why […]
Liao Dynasty The Chinese Art Book brings a new introduction to the art of one of the world’s oldest civilisations. A collaboration of 300 artworks from the Neolithic period to the 21st century, The Chinese Art Book opens the door to 6000 years of Chinese art. Ancient, modern and contemporary works are positioned for the first time […]
George Vong is a British Chinese author and entrepreneur. He grew up working at his parents’ take away in Hull from a very young age. He later dropped out of university to play poker full time, and went to live in Macau. After 3 years of player poker Vong returned to the UK to attend his […]
How things have changed. Present day Shanghai. Photo: www.andrewrochfort.com General view of The Bund, Shanghai in 1960s Author Chris R. Pownall writes about his trip to Shanghai in 1967 I first visited Shanghai in July/August of 1967, whilst serving as a junior engineering officer aboard the S.S. ‘Talthybius’, belonging to the famous, Blue Funnel Line. ‘Talthybius’ was […]
Xingyi Quan is an ancient form of boxing in China, and is an attacking art that has been developed from generation to generation by ordinary people. It has evolved from simple forms to an elaborate art and over time has changed from a deadly all-out attacking form into an internal boxing that promotes health and strengthens the body. The […]
This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height, it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the […]