The Painted Skin
Softly creeping up, he looked through the window and saw a hideous devil, with a green face and jagged teeth like a saw, spreading a human skin upon the bed and painting it with a paint brush.
A Biography of the Old Drunkard
-by Yuan Heng Tao The Old Drunkard - no one knows where he comes from. Nor has he told anyone his name. Since he's always drunk, I call him the Old Drunkard.
Daoqing: Tales from Blind Men
The Yellow River is the Mother River, and her children fought endless battles in the western reaches, where She divides desert from loess. The harsh land soon destroyed all trace of their warfare, but daoqing, a special style of storytellin
The Yi Jing Guide to 2010
This is not the future our childhood cartoons promised us. We're enslaved by the machines that were supposed to free us, and endangered by the war technique that was supposed to keep us safe.
Tales from the Mogao Grottoes
Amitabha's ParadiseTechnically, Dunhuang is an oasis. But for those who don't regularly lead camel caravans through the Taklimakan desert to China, Dunhuang is anything but.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- by Chris Devonshire EllisThe Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is more correctly referred to by its actual title, The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the In
In Search of the Red Chamber
People laugh at us history buffs (okay, history nerds). In turn, we find your divorce from continuity amusing, the way you talk and act as though you're the first real people, as though everyone were a two-dimensional historical stereotype
In China, You Listen to Dad
It's been a tough few decades for fathers. It's a lesson in life imitating "art". Media dads, from movie to sitcom to commercial, are either abusive, repressive, incompetent, or a scintillating combo of the three.
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
The Painted Skin
The Blue Faced Beast Battles in the Northern Capital
A Biography of the Old Drunkard
Daoqing: Tales from Blind Men
The Yi Jing Guide to 2010
Tales from the Mogao Grottoes
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
In Search of the Red Chamber
In China, You Listen to Dad
