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• China's Untouchables
  There’s certainly merit in the Chinese historical view of themselves as an oppressed people: subjected by Hun after Mongol after round-eyed devil.



• In Search of China's Bermuda Triangle
  Faster than you can say Â, bikkurishita! the skies turn dark and the tides violent, breaking up the Kobe and sinking all aboard, along with their ill-gotten cargo of Chinese antiques, paintings, and assorted booty.



• National Day Pictorial, 1973
  This isn’t a flogging – it’s an intervention. Let’s open your scrapbook to 1973, when you were twenty-four, still lean and mean, when Jack Ma was wearing short pants and a red neckerchief.



• Five Tribes from the North
  These minority folk from the North are known for neither technological innovation nor gloomy dispositions.



• Revisiting the Kingdom of Chu
  Don’t forget the many ancient kingdoms in China, kingdoms that were around a lot longer than sixty-odd years, shaped by nature, and forged by people who had ties of clan and fealty that went far deeper than red and yellow face paint.