In 2004, one summer afternoon, I went to the office to fetch something and discovered accidentally a colleague reading in the corner. Out of curiosity, I lent this book for reading. The book, End of the Empire: Violent Change of Late Qing Dynasty, which had been taken after only had read about twenty pages. Then, [...]
In ancient times, there was such a great general. Although he did not lead soldiers for one day, not go to the battle once, nor even hear the sound of a fight, he was truly a majestic and great general, because his title of nobility was hereditary. Border war took place. The great general initiatively [...]
In the 1960s, Mao Zedong criticized the Ministry of Education and called it “a government of officials”. Dating back to the times when Mao Zedong worked in Yanan, before the PRC was founded, Mao Zedong stated clearly that the art and literature should serve the Gongnongbing. But if the Chinese art, with the long history [...]
Most of the buildings of the Da Ming government were built between 1950s and the 1960s. They have been used for half a century. According to the journalist’s interview, a saying popular in Da Ming runs that the best buildings here are those of school, the highest are those of the hospital, the shabbiest are [...]
First to see the Catholic Church of the Spanish-style is in Mexico City and Lima, Peru. When I first saw the Spanish Baroque-style architecture, I was addicted to it. But the real authentic look at it was not achieved until 2009.
Valencia in Spain is third largest city only after Madrid and Barcelona. In 138 BC, [...]
Time is the most abstract appellation. History is the record about the time, but historical books are constantly removing the abstraction of time. Historical records materialize the time. One hundred years of Upheavals records a span of 100 years, and the dignified records was like just as the quotation of Zhang ailing: "the train of [...]
