The ancient system of thought known as Taoism remains today the least well known of the world's great religions and one of the most inaccessible aspects of Chinese culture. This is in large part because Western thought clings to the notion of the separation of matter and spirit, body...

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In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decreeKublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even...

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After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century A.D., China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic...

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"Als im Jahre 1911 in China das Kaisertum abgeschafft und die Republikausgerufen wurde, hörte eine Institution auf zu existieren, die zweitausendJahre hindurch dem ""Reich der Mitte"" das Gepräge verliehen hatte. Dielange und wechselvolle Geschichte dieses Kaiserreiches verlief nicht ohneDramatik. Zahlreiche Dynastien lösten einander an...

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