Matteo Ricci: Jesuit and Geometrist
Better living through geometry. That was one of the lessons shared with the Chinese emperor by the Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci. He was part of an enterprising group of Jesuits priests who brought their...
12 Apr 201813min
Kumarajiva: Translator Monk
Millions of Chinese speak the words of Kumarajiva (334-413) every day. Far fewer have any idea of who he is. He was perhaps China's most influential translator: in medieval China, he translated some o...
11 Apr 201813min
Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong Meiling: Asian Power Couple
Rana Mitter argues that we can think about Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Meiling (Madame Chiang) as Asia's first power couple. They dominated politics in China and were...
10 Apr 201813min
Wu Zetian: The Female Emperor
Rana Mitter tells the story of Wu Zetian, the only woman ever to rule as China's emperor in her own right, in two thousand years of dynastic history. Even more remarkably,, she did it during one of th...
9 Apr 201813min
