Five Classics News Today

Contemporary Chinese literature, from the 1980s to the present, has been highly diverse in its manifestations.

When did ideas of peace emerge in Chinese history?

What did people do before toilet paper was invented?

Chinese music, the art form of organized vocal and instrumental sounds that developed in China. It is one of the oldest and most highly developed of all known musical systems. Chinese music history must be approached with a certain sense of awe. Indeed, any survey evokes the music of a varied, still-active civilization whose archaeological resources go back to 3000 bce and whose own extensive written documents refer to countless forms of music not only in connection with folk festivals and reli...

It's an absorbing topic: Where did toilet paper come from, how is it made and why did it take so long for people to start using it?

What did people do before toilet paper was invented? Everyone poops, but not everyone uses toilet paper. It's estimated that over half of the world's population doesn't use toilet paper (most of them use water instead). But what did people do...

No nation has a more successful record of promoting talent to serve state and society.

In the Chinese traditional culture, autumn was an important time to mark a major shift in the annual cycle.

We turn into frenzied creatures, don’t we, if it appears the warehouse, formerly known as the garage, begins to look a bit bare of toilet paper.

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Cheng Yun-peng (鄭運鵬) last week proposed abolishing the classical Chinese-language part of the civil service entrance exam, sparking a vehement backlash from lawmakers of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), who slammed the proposal as ideological and said it was the DPP’s latest move to garner votes from young Taiwanese. As civil servants need to write and read official documents in Chinese, the exam assesses applicants’ command of the lan...