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AI ‘Ghostbots’ Update China’s Relationship With the Dead

Talking to an AI version of a late lost one is not so different from the photos and other mementoes people have always cherished.

Lin Bibo

Cultural Resistance: China’s Other War During the Japanese Invasion

Amid 14 years of invasion and upheaval, China’s artists, writers, and filmmakers used their work to preserve identity, inspire unity, and fight back.

Wu Haiyun

The Underground WWII Effort to Save China’s Books

When Japan fully invaded China in 1937, the country was thrown into chaos for the next eight years. Throughout it all, a group of Shanghai intellectuals fought to keep China’s historic tomes from disappearing.

Wu Zhen

When the Lens Turned Left: Cinema in Resistance-Era China

As cinema evolved from silent-era drama to a key front in China’s fight against Japanese aggression, filmmakers turned class struggle, social injustice, and war into stories that rallied a nation.

Wang  Peilei

Wartime Woodcuts: The Art That Helped China Fight Japan

Easy reproducibility and striking visuals made woodcut printing China’s main art form during WWII.

Huang Wei

From Cinema to Tian’anmen: How China Got Its National Anthem

‘March of the Volunteers’ was initially the theme song to a 1935 movie about fighting the Japanese.

Wu  Haiyong

The ‘Archeologists’ Unearthing China’s Pre-Digital Fonts

Movable type printing techniques filled the interlude between woodblock carving and digital publishing. Now, enthusiasts are bringing it back.

Liu Yuli

Chinese Opera’s Enduring Influence on Cinema

China’s movie industry began 120 years ago with a recording of a Peking opera performance. Opera’s influence never left.

Gong Yan

The Rise and Fall of Chinese Pidgin English

When East met West in the mid-1800s, no one could understand each other. After a concerted effort between working-class Chinese and early traders, a new language was born, traces of which live on to this day.

Hugo Tseng

The Ancient Secrets Buried in Jade

Over the years, Chinese archaeologists have uncovered new jade relics that may shed light on the dawn of Chinese civilization itself.