Lorsque vous regardez les rares portraits d’abbesses qui restent au Japon de l’époque d’Edo, par exemple le Mugai Nyodai chinsō (無外如大頂相) ou portrait de l’abbesse zen Mugai N…

China’s bold economic tsar who drove sweeping SOE reforms and secured WTO entry has died aged 97.

If you don't get what you hope for, take what you can.

Mise en ligne de l'enregistrement de la conférence donnée à l'Université normale de Chine du Sud (Canton). Cette intervention, qui fait suite à la parution de l'article « La Proclamation de l'empereur Hàm Nghi »...

Emily Bender et Alex Hanna publient The AI con, « L’escroquerie de l’IA ». Une synthèse très documentée qui nous invite à lutter contre le monde que nous proposent les géants de l’IA. Lecture.

Tianjin Beihua

Une peinture par jour pendant tout le mois de juillet. Jour 31. Zhao Yuan 趙原 (actif entre 1350 et 1375, dynasties Yuan et Ming), Adieux au bord d’un ruisseau par temps clair  

The Elephant team's monthly picks of quality contents about China, its society and its people.

A later story by Yu Dafu, about a man's failed relationships with two sisters.

Book I: Chapters 1 & 2

From February, 1922.

I have been researching the life of Polish author in 1920s China Stephanie Rosen-Hoa aka Horose / 华罗琛 and her husband Hua Nangui / 华南圭 since several years. As I was spending a week working in Paris, I took a few hours to follow their steps in the French capital. Stephanie Rosenthal arrived in Paris … Continue reading Following Horose steps in Paris

Mercredi 15 juillet, Wang Jibing, livreur de repas de 57 ans, a remporté le prestigieux prix littéraire chinois Lu Xun. Durant les sept années de sa vie de livr...

Foreword, Trigault's Letter to the Reader, and Translator's Preface

Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained her through the tumult.

Siem Reap est souvent associée aux temples d’Angkor, mais la ville est également l’une des plus belles destinations gastronomiques du Cambodge. La cuisine khmère y révèle toute sa diver…

Que peuvent nous apprendre quelques anciennes monnaies chinoises sur l’Empire khmer ? Bien plus qu’on ne l’imagine. Une récente étude archéologique révèle que ces modestes objets …

The complete beginner's guide to the magical world of Sichuan lacto-fermented pickles

Découvrez les logettes à répit de Saint-Jean-de-Côle destiné aux enfants décédés avant d'avoir été baptisés. Un usage funéraire de substitution étonnant…

LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI by Nien Cheng (1986)

The 1908 Garden Bridge is that rarest of Shanghai historic treasures: an original structure still used for the purpose for which it was built.

On November 6, 1966, Wang Hongwen and others, with the support of Red Guards from Beijing who had traveled south, held a preparatory meeting and decided to establish a cross-industry rebel organization. On November 9, they held a rally at the Shanghai Cultural Plaza to announce its establishment, issuing a declaration that explicitly put forward the political demand "We Want to Seize Power." The S

The life and philosophy of Father Vincent Lebbe

Between 1903 and 1952, there was a Jesuit and French university in Shanghai called l’Aurore. This article focuses on its medical faculty, which operated from 1912 to 1952. It shows that, in a precarious political and military context, l’Aurore ...