Last week, the Boston Globe’s photography platform The Big Picture featured a collection of photos highlighting tea culture and production in China. Here’s the description: According to a legend, tea was first discovered by the legendary Chinese emperor Shennong in 2737 BC. Today, China is the world’s biggest tea producer, selling many varieties of tea leaves […]
Beijing – Bursting at the Seams
A couple of weeks ago, Xinhua News Agency announced that the population of Beijing was more than 21 million: Beijing’s population reached 21.15 million at the end of last year, 2.2 percent up on 2012, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics announced Thursday. Permanent residents in the Chinese capital increased by 455,000 since the […]
My Favorite China History Books
To wrap up my week of posts on Chinese history, here are TEN of my favorite Chinese history books: The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China’s War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900, by Diana Preston. This is a riveting account of the madness that engulfed northern China at […]
Two of My Favorite Things
I have lots of favorite things, but two that are right up there on the list are road trips and Chinese history. Last week I found a way to combine those two loves by listening to episodes of the fantastic China History Podcast while driving across Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. If you are a […]
