por pedroceinos | Feb 26, 2025 | history
The tragedy of the beauty Wang Zhaojun The tragedy of the beauty Wang Zhaojun Emperor Yuan (48–33 BCE) had a large harem and could not meet with all the palace women regularly. Therefore, he ordered painters to create portraits of them, and he would summon them for...
por pedroceinos | Feb 25, 2025 | books, folklore
The economics of human plowing The economics of human plowing According to “The Exploitation Of The Works Of Nature”, a 17th century Chinese book. In farming households where there are no oxen to use, farmers fix a pole to the plough and two men pull the plough by...
por pedroceinos | Feb 24, 2025 | books
The Muslim rebellion in 19th century Yunnan The Muslim Rebellion in Yunnan in 19th century. This is the first English translation of Émile Rocher’s book on the Panthay Rebellion. Originally published in 1879 as La Province chinoise du Yunnan, is a valuable firsthand...
por pedroceinos | Feb 24, 2025 | travel
Kunming Scenes 2025-feb The World of Noodles If the variety of wheat or rice noodles found in China is already enough to fill an entire book, an appendix should be dedicated to noodles made from other ingredients. It seems that any vegetable that can be turned into...
por pedroceinos | Jul 2, 2024 | bai, ethnic-groups
Sexual aspects of Gu venom Gu illness resulted from a contamination by gu poison, which a recent analyst has characterized as “an alien evil spirit which entered [the] body and developed into worms or some similar animal that gnawed away at the intestines or...
