In this travelogue, I recount my autumn 2026 return to Shanghai, where I feel an unclenched sense of freedom that contrasts with growing caution in Europe. I describe quiet electric traffic, live music at Abbey Road, a wedding, QR-tagged plane trees, a community service station, and a painting craze ...

Views: 38 Breathing differently: a homecoming in Shanghai Taojiang Road Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 28/09/2026 What a joy ! I arrived in China once again, and something in me settled the moment I stepped off the plane: a quiet, physical relief that, after all these years of returning, I h ...

Views: 51 Ancient Chinese ideas of equality, communal welfare and social responsibility helped create fertile ground for the later sinicisation of communism Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 21/09/2026 Mozi and Marx. Proto‑Communist thought in pre‑1911 China No communism, but not a blank slate S ...

Views: 40 Political‑party structures and governance in China Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 14/09/2026 The Stork Tower in Puzhou Town, Yongji City, Shanxi province, China The Yellow River does not read a memorial In the seventh century, the Tang poet 王之涣 Wáng Zhīhuàn (688–742) stood upon the ...

Views: 34 The Chinese real economy crushes the West’s hollow service model Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 07/09/2026 It wasn’t China that built the economic meatgrinder. Von der Leyen’s Brussels built it, feeding the European economy in pieces to please her American masters.For deca ...

Views: 74 The Chinese industry conquers the European market, sector by sector Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 31/08/2026 It wasn’t China that built the economic meatgrinder. The Brussels EU built it, feeding the European economy in piece by piece to please its American masters. The ultimate out ...

Views: 46 How five imperial collapses divided the elite from the ordinary Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 17/08/2026 Empires, regimes and cultures rise and fall with the passing of time. It is not only human beings who possess a finite lifespan; civilisations too have to die.[1] They have their ...

Views: 108 An examination of leadership composition, cognitive ability and governance Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 10/08/2026 Research and writing about IQ and STEM are my pet subjects. This article is part 15 of a series exploring cognitive ability, educational outcomes and their broader soc ...

Views: 38 For years this website has argued a plain point: cognitive capital decides who leads and who follows in this century. The series below traces that argument from Chinese meritocracy through STEM education to the Flynn effect, and it keeps growing. 1. Intelligence and governan ...

Views: 53 A voice that China did not ask for, but earned. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 25/05/2026 30 May 2026 marks five years since Yellowlion.org went online. No announcement was made. No campaign was run. The writing simply began. That quiet beginning makes what followed all the more strik ...

Views: 440 The current state of affairs in Western and Chinese healthcare Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 15.03.2024 It’s not the medications that make the difference. This article is not about Western pharmaceuticals versus traditional Chinese medicine. It is about the holistic approach to ...