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Fun With Chinese Characters: III
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Fun With Chinese Characters: II
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Series: Fun With Chinese Characters
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How a Beauty Trap Ended a Brutal Dictatorship
The story of Lady Diao Chan, from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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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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Monkey King in the Queendom
The four pilgrims arrive in a land of only women...and one scorpion demon.
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Heavenly Regalia
It is said that traditional Chinese attire was inspired by the heavens—it is this...
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Manchurian Dance
In the grand halls at the heart of the Qing Dynasty capital of Beijing, in the palace...
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The Cold Cave: A Tale of Devotion
The ultimate tale of a young woman's perseverance and endurance...
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The Mogao Caves of Dunhuang
Along the Silk Road, just outside the town of Dunhuang in western China, lie the Mogao...
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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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Mighty Mom of Mythistory
Out of the myriad divinities from China’s Mythistory, who is the one goddess...
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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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The Phoenix of the Orient
What we know of the oriental phoenix, or fèng huáng (鳳凰), comes from...
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Monkey King at Fire Mountain
Monkey King versus Princess Iron Fan: a tale of humor and trickery.
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Mythistory’s Divine Farmer
Meet the demi-god emperor with a man’s body, an ox’s head, a transparent...
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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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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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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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The Four-Faced Yellow Emperor of Mythistory
Was he real or a myth? Emperor and inventor, or Taoist cultivator and...
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Mythistory Makes Music
How did Chinese music begin? An ancient legend says it happened like this…
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Crescent Moon Spade
It originates from monastic traditions, gets in on fantastic tales as well as the Shen...
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