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The Interactive Mao Kun Map

The Mao Kun map is the earliest Chinese map to accurately map Southern Asia, Persia, Arabia and East Africa. The map was first published in ...

A Quiet Chinese New Year

Last Friday (12th Feb) was Chinese New Year. In a normal year around 2.8 million trips would have been made by Chinese people traveling to v...

The World in Quarantine

Tiananmen Square before & after the coronavirus outbreak As the daily rate of reported new cases of Covid-19 continues to drop in China ...

All Quiet in the Quarantine Zone

China is rolling out a new mobile phone application, called Alipay Health Code, which is being used to enforce quarantine measures. The app ...

One Belt, One Road, Lots of Maps

Diplomats from countries around the world were in China over the weekend. Most of them were desperate to claim a share of the billions of do...

Mapping Urbanization in China

The New York Times has created an impressive mapped visualization showing the incredible rate of urbanization in China’s Pearl River Delta. ...

10 Top Foods to Try When Traveling in China

Hairy crab in Xibao. So you’re traveling to China.   You’re probably wondering, what do people eat in China?   They can’t possibly eat the s...

Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea

In the last couple of months tensions have been running high in the South and East China Seas as China and Japan have both escalated their m...

Dialect Maps

Phonemica is a really interesting map of Chinese spoken stories. The project was conceived as a way to preserve spoken stories in China as s...

China Hacks Google

China Hacks Google Don’t Use Explorer!      Google Blog says, in its entirety : Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber ...

How a complaint led to an ordeal in a secret prison

How a complaint led to an ordeal in a secret prison Life in a World Without Modern Rights or Liberties   Liu Yuhong's family had a quar...