Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Lowdown Leaves Qingdao
The Wild East Magazine Magpies… What was it? One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, hundreds of the frockers,…
Topic
Cultural Revolution
3 stories
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Fortune-telling Alive & Well in The Middle Kingdom
Certain practices and “superstitions” were frowned upon, violently so, during the Cultural Revolution – a recent hiatus in China’s rich and ancient…
Opinion
The Ox Year: From Under the Bund
The New Year of the Ox was heralded in Shanghai by silent shuttered shops and six days and nights of fireworks, often…