Who was the most badass military commander in history?
Today, while listening to the amazing Hardcore History podcast about The Mongol Invasions, I learned the answer to that question- Subutai (1176β1248) was the primary military strategist...
Free eBook: Suffer the Poisoner
“There’s poison in your soup.” With these words, Little Gou is thrust into another adventure as he finds himself struggling to get the woman who poisoned...
Free eBook: The Cat and The Whaler
I’ve just released my newest Little Gou adventure, and to celebrate I’m offering it for free for the next two weeks! Until June 7th, if you go...
Senior Citizen | Futility Closet
Well that’s unusual. I’d like to know what Herbs this guy was taking! π When Chinese herbalist Li Ching-Yun died in 1933, newspapers were hard pressed to...
Chinese Rural Substitute Teachers Earn Little & See No Future β chinaSMACK
For all those local teachers here in London, Ontario who think the job market here sucks- take a look at what it’s like in China. I really...
Qin’s Moon 秦ζΆζζ
I just stumbled across this series today on the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove site, and watched the first episodes. It’s a computer animated WuXia TV...
Adventures in China: Strange Expat Jobs
Ahh, the fun of being a foreign Jack of All Trades! This is where some of the adventure of living in a foreign country comes from! This...
Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth? | Video on TED.com
Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth? | Video on TED.com.
Africans in Guangzhou: Opportunities & Discrimination β chinaSMACK
Africans in Guangzhou: Opportunities & Discrimination β chinaSMACK. is a fascinating article about the lives of a growing African presence in Guangzhou. I knew that China was...
Chinese Muslims
So today I came across an interesting bit of information I didn’t know. It seems that in the Yuan Dynasty the Mongolian rulers didn’t trust the Han...