Boxer Rebellion

Mo Yan's Boxer Rebellion novel an orgy of pain and pleasure

20 Jan 2013

Mo Yan's first novel to be published in English since he won last year's Nobel prize for literature is a strange, gruesome, vivid and ambitious historical novel set during the Boxer Rebellion (...

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Frederick - The Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria

24 Jun 2012

Frederick - The Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria
by Mark O'Neill
Joint Publishing (HK)

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Superb visual record puts the 1911 revolution in context

6 Nov 2011

China in Revolution: The Road to 1911
by Liu Heung-shing
Hong Kong University Press

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Frederick O'Neill

16 Oct 2011

MEDAL OF HONOUR On August 20, I learned of an auction to be held five days later of the medal the Chinese government awarded in 1920 to my grandfather, Frederick O'Neill, an Irish Presbyterian...

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Spirit of an empress

29 Jul 2011

Beijing is not an especially peaceful city, and less so considering the overhaul it has endured since the Olympic facelift began in 2001. Streets were cleaned up, infrastructure improved and plots...

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A language master who avoided contact with Westerners

3 Apr 2011

Sir Edmund Backhouse was born on October 20, 1873, in Richmond, Yorkshire, into a noble Quaker family. He studied at Winchester and Merton College, Oxford.

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

A Fragile Hope

by Ken N. Kamoche

Salt, HK$120

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Boxer Rebellion still throwing punches

The anti-western Boxer Rebellion that shook the nation at the turn of the 20th century is once again causing controversy.

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Controversial article challenged

Sun Yat-sen University scholar Yuan Weishi found himself under the spotlight once again yesterday with the announcement that Bingdian Weekly's resumption next month would coincide with the forced...

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Have HK girls stopped looking for Mr White?

Columnist Chip Tsao claims local women no longer date western men. Is there any evidence?

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New plan takes old Pingyao full circle

When news broke that Shanxi had been selected as one of four provinces to test a rural micro-finance programme, provincial officials did not have to think twice about where to launch it.

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His story repeated

WHEN ADAM WILLIAMS was growing up in Hong Kong, his mother and grandmother would tell him stories of their adventures in northern China in the early 20th century. If he was naughty, his mother...

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