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Explore Famous Parallel Figures 1/10: Kangxi and Louis XIV
In this series we look at historical figures from China’s past who have...
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Explore How a Beauty Trap Ended a Brutal Dictatorship
The story of Lady Diao Chan, from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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Explore The Story of Liang and Zhu
One of China’s best-known folktales, the story of Liang and Zhu can be traced back a...
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Explore Monkey King in the Queendom
The four pilgrims arrive in a land of only women...and one scorpion demon.
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Explore The Cold Cave: A Tale of Devotion
The ultimate tale of a young woman's perseverance and endurance...
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Explore The Phoenix of the Orient
What we know of the oriental phoenix, or fèng huáng (鳳凰), comes from...
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Explore Monkey King at Fire Mountain
Monkey King versus Princess Iron Fan: a tale of humor and trickery.
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Explore Mythistory’s Divine Farmer
Meet the demi-god emperor with a man’s body, an ox’s head, a transparent...
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Explore Mythistory: Great Yu Controls the Waters
It was around 3,000 B.C.E., when a great flood plagued the Middle Kingdom...
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Explore The Goddess of Compassion: Bodhisattva Guan Yin
This goddess of mercy can help solve any problem, but only for those who lead a life of...
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Explore Pigsy from Journey to the West
Pigsy's is a story of a man-pig embarking on a sacred journey. But how did that come...
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Explore The Four-Faced Yellow Emperor of Mythistory
Was he real or a myth? Emperor and inventor, or Taoist cultivator and...
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Explore Mythistory Makes Music
How did Chinese music begin? An ancient legend says it happened like this…
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Explore Mighty Mom of Mythistory
Out of the myriad divinities from China’s Mythistory, who is the one goddess...
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Explore Mythistory Begins
The Chinese tale of creation stars a selfless giant who did all he could do before...
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Explore Dragon Kings of Mythistory
Ancient China was a land where gods and mortals lived in tandem and created a divinely...
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Explore Sage of the Orchid Pavilion
One of the greatest works of Chinese calligraphy, the Orchid Pavilion is also a...
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Explore Sandy: The Giant Fish-Turned Monk
How does a warrior turned man-eating fish-ogre become a Buddhist friar? Meet Sandy, the...
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Explore Tang Monk from Journey to the West
Alternately known as Xuan Zang, Tripitaka, and Tang Seng, this hero from the classic...
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Explore Monkey Business in the Dragon Palace
Mythical heroes are synonymous with their powerful weapons. This is the origins story...
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Explore The Emperor Ascends: The Story of the Illustrious Kangxi
One of China's most illustrious emperors was the great Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. He...
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