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From Liangzhu's jade cong and Taosi's sundial to the grandeur of Shimao's stone city and Erlitou's early state, Yuanxi's ...

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For Philippe Sabourin, writing Prairie Roots and Wings was a deeply personal endeavour. What began as a way to share life experiences with his grandchildren evolved into something larger — a memoir, a ...

Discovered in a Tokyo warehouse, a long-lost ballad by Taiwanese pop star Teresa Teng rekindles memories of an icon whose ...

The party has tried, with some success, to erase what it calls the “political turmoil” of 1989 from the collective memory.

In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s ...

Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and elsewhere.

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Insufficiently noticed is a recent book with unprecedented glimpses into the history of how the US helped open post-Maoist China to the world - and it couldn’t be more timely. These days, the ...