A brief history of Chinese lotteries, and an operator murdered over fraudulent tickets
Various forms of lottery have existed in China for centuries, as have attempts to ban them for reasons like the social ...
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The Good Muck: Toward an Excremental History of China
This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Banister, Judith. "A Brief History of China's Population." In The Population of Modern China, edited by Dudley L. Poston Jr. and David ...
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A Brief History of Ancient Bells
The taozhong, the earliest kind of bell, appeared in primitive Chinese society. It was an instrument for labouring people to play after work. The introduction of metal brought about the tongnao (a ...
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A Brief History of Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Acupuncture and moxibustion are an important invention of the Chinese nation which originated as early as in the clan commune period of the primitive society. The activities of human beings ...
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China’s Long Road from the Long 1970s
The Reviewer — Martin Petersen is a CIA veteran, Asia expert, and a Cipher Brief Expert . He is the author of City of Lost Souls, A Jack Ford Shanghai Mystery [BH1] , which was recently named Earnshaw ...
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Where China’s top leaders discreetly go in summer: a brief history of Beidaihe
Top leaders and experts in China gather every summer at the seaside resort of Beidaihe. Mao Zedong started the summer retreat tradition of meetings as early as 1953. However, Chinese President Xi ...