His life and his art are viscerally linked to freedom of expression. In 2005, his workshop in Beijing was destroyed, a year later an exhibition banned, and Liu Bolin was born on January 7, the anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Famous for his photos where he “hides” in the image, the Chinese artist, … Read more
Whether you are a tourist or an expatriate in Asia, there is no need to be an artist or to understand Chinese to feel challenged by Chinese calligraphy. Is it the mystery of the characters themselves, the energy that emanates from the roundness of the features, or even the harmony of the whole…? Attracted above … Read more
Chinese calligraphy converted from ” fonttaopng.com “. Image by Oiwan Lam. In recent years, the Chinese term “Jade” or “Fei Cui” (翡翠) has been used by overseas Chinese dissidents as a code phrase to criticize Chinese President Xi Jinping. The trend is likely to continue as Chinese political dissidents have just launched an online campaign … Read more
The Yi Jing is often represented by the taiji surrounded by the eight trigrams, here in a park in Nanning, China, August 5, 2003. WIKIPEDIA / CC BY-SA 3.0 Canonized two centuries before our era, the Yi Jing has now become a work of universal scope. From the divinatory practices of Chinese antiquity, it is … Read more
Award-winning Chinese writer Xue Mo, renowned for his literary works depicting life in Western China, showcased his over 30-book oeuvre at the China International Book Trading Corporation (CIBTC) booth at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022. The acclaimed contemporary Chinese author’s exhibition attracted the attention of publishing houses and copyright agencies around the world, with the booth crowded … Read more
It cannot be said that all dictatorships – despite having in common the single party and the iron occupation of the state – are equal. But beyond the historical diversity of the nations they dominate, differentiated tactics and non-comparable economic models, they have a common strategic purpose: to maintain power with the force of repression, … Read more
In the east of the planet there is also a zodiac similar to the western one, but with very precise characteristics; it is about the Chinese horoscope, in which to find out under what sign born, the year of birth is taken into account, instead of the month as in the Western zodiac. one of … Read more
“On the American side, several mistakes – many of these tactical and related to domestic politics – have produced a dangerous reality: there are no serious bilateral relations between the two most influential players of the 21st century.” Fareed Zakariain an opinion published online in the Washington Postframes the visit to Taiwan of the president … Read more
Can we innovate in a conservative society? This question is old. “Any innovation presents itself ten, a hundred times in front of the obstacle to be overcome, it is the war of lost opportunities”, said the historian Fernand Braudel, evoking the idea that technological inventions largely preceded industrial revolutions, but generally failed to find fertile … Read more
The Yi Jing is often represented by the taiji surrounded by the eight trigrams, here in a park in Nanning, China, August 5, 2003. WIKIPEDIA / CC BY-SA 3.0 Canonized two centuries before our era, the Yi Jing has now become a work of universal scope. From the divinatory practices of Chinese antiquity, it is … Read more