At the beginning of 2021, as the epidemic situation eased, my calligraphy teacher and I visited the Forbidden City Museum. At first, our aim was to examine Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy works. Walking through the fluctuating architectural space of the long imperial path, we felt an invisible and growing spiritual pressure, awed by the grandeur of the building and its illustrious history. Finally, entering a wide square through the Taihe gate we saw….
Read MoreMany historians have confused the wealth of poetry and dramas written by Chinese women within the literati or Qing courts as powerful, influential sources that highlight the prevalence of women in China. However, it is difficult to discern the extent to which the female voice had any power in China during the eighteenth-century due to the gap in the historical source material.
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Walking on Beijing’s busiest shopping street, Wangfujing, where traffic jams used to line up into a river and be flooded by people, the view now is empty and desolate.
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