The last emperors of China, the Qing Dynasty, were Manchus. Their language is close to dying out in modern China, so now there’s a last-ditch effort to save it, and the link it provides to China’s history and traditional medicine.
Ruins in Beijing help explain why the Chinese are so wary of the west
Journalist Dai Qing, jailed because of her opposition to the Three Gorges Dam project, talks to LOE about the politics of the environment in her native land, China.
China will send a team of experts around the world to catalog cultural relics it claims were looted from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace. The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at an episode many Chinese regard as one of the most humiliating in their history.