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Why the West Fears AI and China Doesn’t
The Machine Heart: How Chinese Culture Defines Intelligence
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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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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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The Checkbox: Tangled Identities of the Chinese Diaspora
How China Invented (and Abandoned) the ‘Overseas Chinese’
Jun 5
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Is a Modern Invention
How “Obsolete Medicine” became “Chinese,” and what happened everywhere it traveled
May 29
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Hanfu: One Garment, Two Opposite Crimes
A severed memory and the search for an unwounded past
May 22
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When India Asked for the Tao Te Ching
Xuanzang, the Tao, and the Paradox of Cultural Translation
May 13
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Why China Is Still an ‘Agricultural’ State
How the Ancient Doctrine of ‘Elevating Agriculture, Suppressing Commerce’ Drives the World’s Largest Manufacturing Power
Apr 28
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Orthodox China in Taiwan?
From the Cultural Cold War to the Divergence of Classical Chinese
Apr 21
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