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Autumn in Shanghai: weddings, violins, queues and afternoon tea.
Autumn in Shanghai is a season of contrasts. The city is proud, well organised and still negotiating what home really means. In this instalment, we attend a wedding at Taiyuan Villa, the restored Hudec mansion on Ta
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- 2026-10-18
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Shanghai in autumn: Community, celebration and the housing question
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 12/10/2026
Shanghai Library East at Hehuan Road 300 (合欢路300号), by Yingchun Road (迎春路), Pudong New Area.Exhibition: Reading the Renaissance: Western books and manuscripts from the 10th to the
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- 2026-10-12
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
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- 2026-10-05
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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
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- 2026-09-28
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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
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- 2026-09-21
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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
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- 2026-09-14
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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
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- 2026-08-17
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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
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- 2026-08-08
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The cracks in the western system
By Professor Zhu Andong 朱安东 Translated and published by Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 06/07/2026
Photo: Professor Zhu Andong (朱安东), Dean of the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University
By Professor Zhu Andong (朱安东)¹Dean of the School of Marxism, Tsinghua
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- 2026-07-06
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Parallels between the Chinese New Culture / May Fourth Movements and the Vlaamse Frontbeweging.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 08/06/2026
The early 20th century gave rise to two transformative, history‑altering grassroots movements, geographically distant but deeply aligned in core pu
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- 2026-06-08
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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
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- 2026-05-24
