64 h. ago Chinese reusable rocket booster crashes during first historic orbital test

Chinese reusable rocket booster crashes during first historic orbital test  CNN

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67 h. ago A Chinese reusable booster explodes in historic first orbital test — highlighting challenge to chase SpaceX

A Chinese reusable booster explodes in historic first orbital test — highlighting challenge to chase SpaceX  CNN

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5 d. ago China boy, 14, acts like ancient scholar, turns bedroom into museum of artefacts

A 14-year-old Chinese boy who turned his bedroom into a small history museum and spoke like an ancient scholar has attracted an army of followers online. The secondary school student from central China’s Henan province, Xie Zhaoyutong, loves ancient Chinese history and literature and has filled his bedroom with his antique collections. A recent video of Xie passionately introducing his collections went viral online. It attracted 837,000 likes and 40,000 comments. Xie collects pottery, china,...

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8 d. ago Public outrage over Chinese man placing hell money in Japanese temple donation box

A Chinese man who placed joss paper into a fortune-drawing money collection box at Japan’s Sensoji Temple has sparked online outrage and criticism of bad tourist behaviour. A video that circulated on social media in November showed the unidentified man putting a piece of joss paper, also known as “hell money”, into the box on the desk where fortune sticks are drawn. Visitors are required to put 100 yen (US$1) into the box to draw from 100 bamboo sticks in a tube. They then need to find the...

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2 w. ago Beijing launches historic preservation campaign to cement South China Sea claims

China has launched a campaign to preserve historical sites on the disputed Woody Island, or Yongxing Island in Chinese, as Beijing looks to cement its territorial claims in the South China Sea. A team of conservation scientists and technicians from the Hainan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology spent six days reinforcing a monument that marked China’s takeover of the Paracel Islands, known as the Xisha Islands in China, after World War II, according to the government of the...

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2 w. ago Tourist Blamed for Sparking Massive Fire at Chinese Temple Site with 'Irresponsible Candle Use'

Tourist Blamed for Sparking Massive Fire at Chinese Temple Site with 'Irresponsible Candle Use'  People.com

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2 w. ago Chinese temple goes up in flames due to tourist’s improper use of candles. Viral video | Trending

Chinese temple goes up in flames due to tourist’s improper use of candles. Viral video | Trending  Hindustan Times

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2 w. ago Chinese state media calls for research into Ryukyu history amid row with Japan

There have again been calls in Chinese state media for more research into “historical justice” and legal claims around Ryukyu, as a diplomatic row over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments on Taiwan drags on. On Wednesday, state-run Global Times in an editorial called for further studies to be done on the Ryukyu island chain, arguing that it was an important issue that was much more than academic. “The geopolitical position, strategic choices and future trajectory of the Ryukyu...

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2 w. ago Video Tourist blamed for massive fire at historic Chinese temple site

Video Tourist blamed for massive fire at historic Chinese temple site  ABC News

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2 w. ago Stranded astronauts return, university ranking ridiculed: 7 science highlights

We have put together stories from our coverage on science from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Mathematician Qian Hong, son of top scientific clan, leaves US for China A renowned mathematician who is also part of China’s Qian clan – a surname linked in the annals of Chinese scientific history to national pioneers in science and engineering – has become the latest US-based scientist to return to...

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2 w. ago Mathematician Qian Hong, son of leading scientific clan, reverses US brain drain

A renowned mathematician who is also part of China’s Qian clan – a surname linked in the annals of Chinese scientific history to national pioneers in science and engineering – has become the latest US-based scientist to return to China. After more than 40 years in the United States, Qian Hong has left his endowed professorship at the University of Washington to join the prestigious and private Westlake University in eastern China. Qian’s appointment last month as a full-time chair professor with...

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2 w. ago Mathematician Qian Hong, son of top scientific clan, leaves US for China

A renowned mathematician who is also part of China’s Qian clan – a surname linked in the annals of Chinese scientific history to national pioneers in science and engineering – has become the latest US-based scientist to return to China. After more than 40 years in the United States, Qian Hong has left his endowed professorship at the University of Washington to join the prestigious and private Westlake University in eastern China. Qian’s appointment last month as a full-time chair professor with...

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2 w. ago China’s Queen Bao Si was blamed for millennia. Science has cleared her name

Few women in Chinese history have been as scorned – or as misunderstood – as Bao Si. For nearly three millennia, the queen has been remembered not as a person, but as a symbol: the beautiful femme fatale whose cold heart and unparalleled beauty brought down a dynasty. According to legend, Bao Si was a queen so aloof she never smiled. Desperate to amuse her, King You of the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1046-771 BC) is said to have played a deadly prank: he lit the kingdom’s sacred beacon fires –...

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2 w. ago Chinese history blamed this woman for 2,796 years. Science clears her name

Few women in Chinese history have been as scorned – or as misunderstood – as Bao Si. For nearly three millennia, the queen has been remembered not as a person, but as a symbol: the beautiful femme fatale whose cold heart and unparalleled beauty brought down a dynasty. According to legend, Bao Si was a queen so aloof she never smiled. Desperate to amuse her, King You of the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1046-771 BC) is said to have played a deadly prank: he lit the kingdom’s sacred beacon fires –...

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3 w. ago Malaysia’s Penang orders Chinese tourist’s panda mural removed

The Penang Island City Council has ordered the unauthorised mural at a building at Chew Jetty to be removed. In a notice dated Thursday, issued under Section 82 of the Local Government Act 1976 by the council’s Heritage Conservation Department, the building owner in the Malaysian state was instructed to erase and repaint the wall. The mural gained fame after a video of a Chinese tourist, known as Shen Shishi, painting a picture of a panda on the mural went viral online. She was accused of...

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3 w. ago Chinese Navy Makes Historic Visit to Latin America Amid Military Tensions

Chinese Navy Makes Historic Visit to Latin America Amid Military Tensions  Newsweek

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3 w. ago Why in Chinese culture ‘wearing a green hat’ means man has a cheating wife

The colour that Chinese men dislike the most is perhaps green. This aversion stems from centuries of tradition in Chinese history, where “wearing a green hat” signifies that a man’s wife has been unfaithful. Around 2,000 years ago in ancient China, green was regarded as a lowly and degrading colour. It was referred to as a “mixed colour” because it is created by blending blue and yellow. At that time, the general populace valued five “primary colours” – red, yellow, blue, white, and black –...

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3 w. ago How Chinese Real Estate Became the Biggest Bubble in History

How Chinese Real Estate Became the Biggest Bubble in History  Bloomberg.com

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