history & literature

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Meat forests and wine ponds: The role of the ‘evil’ concubine in early dynastic China

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An arthouse anomaly: The rise and resonance of 'Only the River Flows'

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Chinese and British: perspectives on 'Chineseness' among Chinese expatriates

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Big-state intergalactic warfare: the politics of pessimism in Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem

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How to translate emptiness? The empty scriptures in "Journey to the West"

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The Two Zhengs of the Sea