The Chinese government’s erratic tolerance of Cultural Revolution literature
This month’s Kuoras will examine the Cultural Revolution. Last week’s column was on Mao Zedong’s role. This week’s column comes from one of Kaiser’s answers originally...
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How Mao mobilized millions and benefitted from the chaos
This month’s Kuoras will examine the Cultural Revolution. We begin with a column from one of Kaiser’s answers originally posted to Quora on April 11, 2016:...
How China’s ‘century of humiliation’ resonates today
This week’s column comes from one of Kaiser’s answers originally posted to Quora on September 7, 2016: What lesson did Chinese people learn from the “hundred...
China’s rise and fall as explained by two historical cycles
This week’s column comes from one of Kaiser’s answers originally posted to Quora on October 17, 2013: History of China: Why did the Ming Dynasty fall?...
How to write better-looking Chinese characters
This week’s column comes from one of Kaiser’s answers originally posted to Quora on May 8, 2015: How can I write better, calligraphy-like Hanzi? One tip...
When did Chinese people start to self-identify as ‘Han’?
This week’s column comes from one of Kaiser’s answers originally posted to Quora on May 9, 2015: When and how did the dominant ethnicity in China...
How Islam arrived in China
This week’s column comes from one of Kaiser’s answers originally posted to Quora on May 8, 2015: How did Islam spread to ancient China? Islam came...
The man who unified China and commissioned the Terracotta Warriors
This week’s column comes from two of Kaiser’s answers originally posted to Quora on February 24, 2011 and October 27, 2011: For what is Qin Shi...
China embraced Western classical music because it was superior
This week’s Kuora comes from two of Kaiser’s answers, originally posted to Quora on December 19, 2014: Why did Western classical music catch on in China so much...