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You Think High Heels Are Painful...

Ancient Chinese custom, well, not so ancient because it continued into the early 1900's, required that women bind their feet so that they were as tiny as possible. And by tiny, I mean that the perfect length...

5 comments    customs chinese history
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Chinese Jump Rope

Today, children all over the world play versions of Chinese Jump Rope. The game has been traced back to being played by children in 7th century China. The Chinese New Year and other traditional festivals...

1 comment    children games history
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Discover Chinese Mythology

If we go back as far as four-thousand years, we will find there the evidences of Chinese mythology in abundance. In China the 'real' is woven so closely to 'myth' that they are often quite inseperable....

0 comments    education religion history
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The people of China

Let me start by saying that I do know people in Australia who are Chinese. I guess not very well, merely passing acquaintances really. I'd read quite a bit about China and its people, but nothing prepared...

4 comments    travel people history
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ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE BIBLICAL ORIGIN OF CHINESE PEOPLE?

I want to know if Christians in the West interested in reading the biblical origin of Chinese people? I have written a book about this. Please give me feedback after you read the following excerpt from part...

2 comments    religion bible christianity
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Introduction Of China

Introduction Of ChinaChina has a long and glorious history: in 3000 years without interruption, and has documented the history of 5000 years has the precise, clear history of oral tradition, archaeological...

culture chinese history understanding china
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Martial Arts Heroines

Adding to the spirituality of the martial arts through the influences of yoga, chi, and meditation is the enormous role that religious leaders played in the development of the arts. Adding to the...

0 comments    women people history
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Marco Polo, Khubilai Khan, and the Mongols

Before you read this I have to warn you that while most of the facts are accurate and the research is valid--and it will be obvious in places where it is not--I also use some bad words and less-than-savory...

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