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Why China's Ethnic Minorities Speak Mandarin
Did Xinjiang Have the Best Bilingual Education System?
Aug 25
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A Book to Burn: The story of a 400-year-old banned book
The Heretic of Every Generation: Li Zhi
Aug 20
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How Mandarin Became Standard Chinese
Is standard Chinese anybody's mother tongue?
Aug 13
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Will AI Become Your Delegate in Democracy?
How local governance experiments in China preview the future of automated representation
Aug 7
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July 2026
Why I built an AI Map for Ancient Architecture
Flow Heritage, Ways to Explore China and Beyond
Jul 27
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Why the West Fears AI and China Doesn’t
The Machine Heart: How Chinese Culture Defines Intelligence
Jul 21
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When China Was the Edge of the World
And the Buddhism Middle Kingdom was in India
Jul 15
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Dragon or Loong?
Descendants of Satan? How China’s creatures change shape in translation
Jul 7
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June 2026
How a Chinese Local Congress Said No
A test of whether democracy can hold down local debt
Jun 29
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The Tribute System Isn’t Returning to China
Tribute versus treaty, and how an empire chooses which one to use.
Jun 25
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Why Haidian, China’s Richest District, Has No Luxury Stores
Inside the Machine That Makes China's Technocrats
Jun 19
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Will China Become a Limited-Liability Society?
Failure, Forgiveness, and the Dare to Run
Jun 11
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