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Reflections | When centuries of Chinese knowledge were destroyed by warlord who burned a city (opens the original)
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Xiang Yu’s razing of the Qin capital Xianyang, which left libraries full of vital texts in ruin, was echoed centuries later in Warsaw Warsaw’s wartime destruction was not merely the consequence of battle, but a deliberate campaign by its Nazi German occupiers to erase much of the city. In August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising – a Polish armed revolt by the city’s underground resistance against German occupation – began with the aim of liberating Warsaw. German forces fought to crush it, subjecting th
Reflections | A Polish priest’s perilous mission to save a doomed Chinese dynasty (opens the original)
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In 1651, the embattled Ming court, which included several Christian converts, sent Michal Boym to seek the Pope’s aid. It never came This is not to suggest that dumplings travelled directly from China to Poland. One theory posits that dumpling-like foods – from Nepalese momo and Central Asian and Turkish manti to Georgian khinkali – spread westwards from their origin in East Asia through Central and South Asia, the Middle East and, eventually, Europe. Another posits that filled dumplings emerged
Reflections | Amid ‘Lake America’ stink, the Chinese emperor whose renaming campaign backfired (opens the original)
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Two thousand years ago, Wang Mang’s renaming of places, peoples and titles fuelled rebellions that ended both his regime and his life Nearly 2,000 years ago, a Chinese ruler took renaming to an altogether more ambitious – and absurd – level. In AD9, Wang Mang replaced the Western Han dynasty (202BC-AD9), which he had served as an official and whose imperial family he was related to by marriage, with his own. As emperor of the Xin – literally “New” – dynasty, he then embarked on what might be des
Reflections | From prison and poverty to Chinese emperor: rags-to-riches tale of Liu Bingyi (opens the original)
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Spared execution as a baby, imperial family member Liu Bingyi grew up a palace outcast, but this served him well after taking power in 74BC In Belgium, Clement Vandenkerckhove, a 26-year-old former car salesman, has recently been formally recognised as the son of Prince Laurent, the younger brother of the country’s king, Philippe. Vandenkerckhove was born out of wedlock when his mother, the Belgian singer Wendy Van Wanten, and Prince Laurent had a relationship in the 1990s. A DNA test confirmed
Reflections | How Chinese emperors’ birthdays became national holidays celebrated by all (opens the original)
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In 729, Emperor Xuanzong marked his birthday with official ceremonies and festivities across China in a tradition that endured for centuries Malaysia celebrates its Independence Day (“Hari Merdeka” in Malay) on August 31. This year, it will mark the 69th anniversary of the Malayan Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom. Note that it was a “Malayan”, not “Malaysian”, declaration. For decades, August 31 was observed as the country’s de facto national day, despite periodic grumblings f
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