Showing posts with the label China

Autumn Harvest Drying in Huangling

Jan 15, 2020

Huangling in Wuyuan County, in east China's Jiangxi Province, is a small picturesque village built on the hillside, surrounded by specta...

Slovak Radio Building: The Inverted Pyramid

Jan 11, 2020

Some call it ugly. Others defend it for its architectural features. Whichever faction you side with, you can’t deny that it is an exceptiona...

China’s Trackless Trains

Dec 18, 2019

After two years of testing, a new futuristic train that runs on virtual tracks was launched for the first time in Yibin, in the province of ...

Bayan Obo: The Chinese Mine That Makes All Gadgets Possible

Oct 19, 2019

In the image above , captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in June 2006, we see some deep scars in the desert—the result of nearly sixty years...

Chinese Medicine Dolls

Oct 10, 2019

For hundreds of years until the early 20th century, getting medical help for a Chinese woman was tricky. In those times the Chinese placed e...

The Ancient Chinese Earthquake Detector That’s Puzzling Modern Researchers

Sep 6, 2019

In the year 132 CE, a brilliant Chinese astronomer, mathematician and engineer named Zhang Heng presented to the Han court an impressive inv...

Fishing With Sulphuric Fire

Aug 23, 2019

Many fishes are attracted towards light just as moths and flying ants are—a behavior that fishermen around the world exploit to bring them t...

Taiwan’s Giant Wall of Propaganda Spewing Speakers

Jun 13, 2019

Just off the southeastern coast of mainland China, lies a group of two islands collectively called Kinmen. For over seventy years, these is...

The Hanging Coffins of China And Philippines

May 30, 2019

The ancient Bo and Guyue people of southern China did not bury their dead. Instead, they hung their coffins from tall cliffs. This peculiar ...

The World’s Oldest Printed Book

May 17, 2019

The Diamond Sutra is an ancient Buddhist sermon that generation of Buddhists have memorized and chanted since at least the fifth century. T...