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Tobacco reached China from the Philippines in the 16th century and quickly caught on. At first its health benefits were touted, but soon came warnings of its ill-effects, and in 1639 a ban.
Another great China flood: the story of how the Yellow River was tamed, and a Confucian lesson to boot scmp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scmp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Post An ink drawing of a concubine on her way to join the household of her new master. Photo: Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images READ FULL ARTICLE + FOLLOW Having lived his whole life in the modern cities of Singapore and Hong Kong, Wee Kek Koon has an inexplicable fascination with the past. He is constantly amazed by how much he can mine from China's history for his weekly column in Post Magazine, which he has written since 2005.
If Haiti president's assassination is a puzzle, how about when Chinese imperial palace maids tried to kill an emperor in his sleep? scmp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scmp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A museum worker cleans a bronze relic, which was excavated in 1986, at the Sanxingdui Museum on April 13, 2005 in Guanghan, Sichuan province, southwest China. Some believe this and other artefacts unearthed in Sanxingdui point to alien life. Photo: Getty Images Opinion Reflections by Wee Kek Koon Aliens in China? An extraterrestrial civilisation thrived in ancient times, believe some, based on relics uncovered by archaeologists Three thousand-year-old artefacts unearthed at Sanxingdui, first in the 1920s and then in the 80s, have convinced many of past alien life in southwestern China Historians have begun to speak of multiple centres of advanced cultures in the ancient world that were ‘jointly ancestral to Chinese civilisation’
Why are young Chinese people criticised for 'lying flat? It proved an invaluable cultural gain for the country once scmp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scmp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The 3 ways children fail their parents in traditional Chinese culture and why the worst is perhaps not all bad scmp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scmp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
While their homes were literally palatial, offering material comforts most of us cannot even begin to imagine, Chinese emperors adhered to strict, often arduous, daily routines.
Xiahou Dun, the famous one-eyed general who lived and fought during the chaotic final years of the Eastern Han dynasty, was fondly remembered after his death.
The stories of Ganjiang and Moye, ancient China’s celebrated swords and their makers Ancient China was home to many famous swords, among them were Ganjiang and Moye, named after the married couple that made them Legend and mythology collide in two tales of how the pair of swords came to be, neither of which is short on drama