All Good Things Come To An End
From Governor in Guangzhou to Prisoner in India, Ye Mingchen was probably the unluckiest official as Governer-General of Guangdong…
Peter Parker in Canton
That there was figure in Guangdong history who also shares his name with a famous web slinger…Now, that’s just…
Guardians of the past
They rise from the rice fields and bamboo groves of Kaiping County, eternal Monuments to the dynamic Cantonese spirit…
Playing expat is Dangerous
Even in the PRD, where all are from somewhere else, it’s tough. Did the Sichuan waitress mock your tones?…
the old Kingdom of Nanyue
The ruins and records of an ancient kingdom are locked beneath the glass and steel of the modern Pearl…
Military Ghosts of Modern China
On May 1, 1924, on Changzhou Island, a motley crew of unlikely allies celebrated the opening of one of…
The Boat CLAIMING South Sea
Shipwrecks are time capsules. Hidden beneath waves, they are suspended in silt and sand. Just down the coast from…
A Summer of Anniversaries
In the heady early months of the Opium War…
The Electric Camel
Workers who support society are both hated and loved. Do they help or get in the way? One thing’s…
Forever Repeating the Past
Thousands of years of making one mistake after another and we’ll probably continue that way ad infinitum. Isn’t it…
