Views: 7 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 ...

Views: 26 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 ...

Views: 82 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: 44 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: 36 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: 105 Educational failure and sociological indoctrination have created a population incapable of sustaining Western civilisation Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 24/08/2026 Research and writing about IQ and STEM are my pet subjects. This article is part of a series exploring cognitive abilit ...

Views: 50 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: 119 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: 39 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: 70 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 ...

Views: 65 Revisiting China after years away By Chen Weihua | China Daily | Updated: 2025-10-18 Chen Weihua [photo © FrVdb]At the background: a high-speed train runs along the Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed rail route along the Yangtze River, passing through Changshu, Jiangsu province. [Photo prov ...

Views: 342 Decoding the price tag: How China masters low-cost production Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 01/06/2026 “How is it possible that in China everything costs 1/3 to 1/5 of the price in Europe?” That’s the question I regularly get thrown at me.China is using the same kind of flour to mak ...

Views: 82 The long way (back) home. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 18/05/2026 The famous Chinese classic “Journey to the West”i knows eighty-one trials, three fallen disciples, and one monk who walks through fire to bring scripture home. This flight had fewer demons but no fewer detours. ...

Views: 55 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 ...