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This winter (2024-2025) is a poor one for some species we consider to be staple winter visitors in Beijing.  Thrush numbers are well down, waxwings are scarce and there are almost no high-elevation redstarts in their usual mountain haunts.  Certainly at Lingshan the sea buckthorn crop, which usually sustains good numbers of thrushes and redstarts,…

Twenty-five years ago—almost to the day—Shanghai in Images took off. With seed funding from the France-Berkeley Fund, my comrade-in-idea(l)s, Yeh Wen-hsin, and I launched the first online database of Chinese historical photographs with two...

The former Chinese Communist Party leader’s ousting and death led to the Tiananmen protests, but his life reveals a deeper push and pull between reformist and conservative impulses.

De He Yuyan sur Bitter Winter : Église catholique en Chine : l'étrange cas de l'évêque Ji Weizhong 02/05/2025 Une...

In more than 20 years in Shanghai (and counting), I spent many years in the former French concession but one location in particular remains a clear favorite. This was on Route Kaufmann (today Anting lu / 安亭路), where I spent 10 years. Living at the back a small lane really felt like living in Old … Continue reading Route Kaufmann, Frenchtown

Sebastian Veg a publié une nouvelle traduction des œuvres majeures du plus grand écrivain chinois de l’époque contemporaine: la Préface ...

Par Nathan Larbaoui-Hazard,   Inauguré en 2021, le pont ferroviaire Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang relie la province chinoise du Heilongjiang à la région extrême-orientale russe de Nizhneleninskoye, en traversant le fleuve Amour. Il s’agit du premier projet d’infrastructure...

To understand the new China, one must understand how it has preserved and revived elements of the old