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On this Day in Chinese History; 28 March

This day, 28 March, 1905, Huang Zunxian, a reformist diplomat and poet of the late Qing Dynasty, passed away. Most of Huang’s poems related to world affairs of the time, while in one he used the Chinese words, “文明”,...

On this Day in Chinese History; 27 March

This day, 27 March, in 2017, during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to New Zealand, China and New Zealand signed the “Memorandum of Arrangement between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of New Zealand on...

My Big Fat Kuaidi Wedding

Chinese weddings are no meagre affair. Copious amounts of food, baijiu, the colour red filled the wedding venue; lest we forget the guests themselves. With this “姐” (“jie”; sister) and that “哥” (“ge”; brother) all staring at the grinning...

Where Did All Our Time Go? A Kuaidi Kween Komments

A kettle sits in my front garden, inside a wedge of polystyrene in a cardboard box. I know for sure it is a kettle, because I justbought a new one. On Taobao.  The piercing whistle of the old one has...

The Velda Delivery; House 9, 1st Av., Unity St., Torrent City

Stephanie read the address out loud, hoping that this time, it would ring a bell. Sadly, just like every time before now, she came up blank. In her almost fifteen years of being a delivery person, she had never...

The Building of Nanjing (24); Purple Mountain Observatory

They were the largest of their kind in the Far East at the time. Today, telescopes far and wide falling under the umbrella of Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory continue to make significant contributions to astronomical observation. No wonder it...

To Malacca and Back; The Greatest Contribution of the British

You’re familiar with the rule by now. Do not carry your own liquids allowed into the airport departure lounge.  … except that I was drinking an awesome green tea I’d brought with me from China. And no one was asking...

On this Day in Chinese History; 26 March

This day, 26 March, 1987, the governments of China and Portugal initialed the “Joint Statement on the Question of Macau”, which stated that the government of the People’s Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Macau...
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