One day when I was four, I found an interesting book on the shelf, called A Strange Patient. This anthology starts with an impressive piece of science fiction,Miracle on the World’s Highest Peak by Ye Yonglie. The story describes an investigation of Mount Everest, where, with some Tibetans’ help, scientists find a precious dinosaur egg embedded in amber and preserved intact over time. Unlike their counterparts in Jurassic Park, however, the Chinese scientists don’t extract dinosaur genes and clone this extinguished species. Instead, they hatch a baby dinosaur
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Karl Gerth is a tutor and fellow at Merton College and a historian of modern China at Oxford Univers...
David Kelly, researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, translated the following opinion pie...
China has been looming ever larger in the global economy and the global imagination in recent years,...
International audienceFor several centuries now European and American sinologists and novelists have...
Remember those jailbirds who know all of each others’ jokes? They don’t tell the whole joke, just sh...
Earlier this year, we ran two excerpts from Jonathan Tel’s (then forthcoming) collection of short st...
This paper examines the extent to which Chinese science fiction literature has played a role in the ...
A green future has become a central promise of the Chinese state and the environment is playing an ...
International audienceIf ‘China’, as Lee argues, is a product of Westernisation, then the West is it...
A grab bag of readings around the web that we wanted to share — loosely connected by a “China in the...
Headlines about China have been looking the same for some time now. “The China story” always seems t...
On Friday, April 23, China Beat and the UCI Humanities Collective hosted a dialogue between journali...
According to the International Monetary Fund, for the first time in decades, the U.S. is no longer t...
The article explores the life and works of botanist Joseph Rock, historian Joseph Needham, and physi...
In February 2014, the US-based Tea Leaf Nation, a news site dedicated to Chinese citizens and social...
Karl Gerth is a tutor and fellow at Merton College and a historian of modern China at Oxford Univers...
David Kelly, researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, translated the following opinion pie...
China has been looming ever larger in the global economy and the global imagination in recent years,...