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Dear readers, This following BBC article was written in 2006, but certain facts of learning Chinese still remain true.   Westerners have the reputation of using the fourth tone exclusively for all words. It is a sharp falling sound, a … Continue reading →

By the late Tang dynasty, landscape painting had evolved into an independent genre that embodied the universal longing of cultivated men to escape their quotidian world to commune with nature. Such images might also convey specific social, philosophical, or political … Continue reading →