While re-googling some of the search words that bring visitors to this site, I noticed that many people are looking for images of Buddhist art in Asian countries. Here is a small collection of Buddhist Art Of China, which is part of the Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art. I’ve visited both the Longmen [...]

I’ve noticed that many people come to my site in search of information about Chinese History. I’ve had a small table of Chinese History as supplemental data in the China Room section of this site since 1996, and this long-term exposure to search engines is definitely driving up my site traffic. Since there seems to [...]

…now in German! If you’ve ever been to the other side of this site, you know that I like to write about China travel. An old friend of mine back in Germany is currently in the process of launching Travelpak, a travel portal site, and I am now writing a series of articles about China [...]

It would be an understatement to say that propaganda posters had an important role in how the Chinese Communist Party communicated with the public. Especially in the early years of the People’s Republic, when radios were still sparse and travel was hard, a few strategically placed posters in each town and village were maybe the [...]

During my travels in China I was always fascinated by Shanghai’s history and by how close to the surface of modern Shanghai much of its past still is. It’s still possible to find pre-revolutionary signage on some store fronts in the more quiet side streets and a lot of the building substance of the 1940s [...]