Views: 32 Linguistic imperialism Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 13/07/2026 This article is inspired and based on: Why We Shun Asian Words Language & Empire By Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD Translation as conquest There is a fundamental paradox about global language. European languages ...

Views: 40 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: 62 Manufactured certainty and the silence beyond it Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 29/06/2026 Photo: Immense, sublime silence: the Ayeyarwady river near Mandalay. ©FrVdb 2003 Mark Twain wrote in 1869 that travel kills prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitabl ...

Views: 43 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: 58 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 ...

Views: 291 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: 56 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: 41 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: 71 Shanghai, trust and confidence growing on every corner. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 10/05/2026 China is safe Two weeks ago I already noticed it, but I’m still so surprised about this phenomenon that I want to show more photos of unguarded parcels on pavements, this time not on Y ...

Views: 88 Shanghai city life Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 04/05/2026 New shop opening in Shanghai Xujiahui Grand Gateway 66 South Tower. What a mad rush ! Lunchtime on the pavement At lunchtime, the small restaurants are bustling and packed to the brim, so people spill out on ...

Views: 116 Shanghai to Nanjing Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 20/04/2026 HST to NanjingTaken the High Speed Train to Nanjing. There are HST trains almost every 15 minutes to Nanjing. Above and beyondWe cannot thank my close friend Steven Li Zuyang enough!He generously sent hi ...

Views: 54 The tea and coffee odyssey. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 23/03/2026 Tea and coffee at Hengshan Garden hotel in Shanghai on 28.10.2025 From the ancient tea houses of China to the coffee-houses of Vienna, these two beverages have traversed the globe, shaping economies and defining cult ...

Views: 104 A study in civilisational grief Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 16/03/2026 Photo credit: tearsofdeepgrief Symptoms A French veteran shouts at a Beijing waitress in a language she does not understand. Young Americans drift through Shanghai, certain the world owes them a living, and t ...

Views: 27 How Chinese scientists embody a different value Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 09/03/2026 A confronting image When I first travelled to China many decades ago, the internet did not exist. I remember writing on a postcard to my parents: “Everything is different here.” ...

Views: 69 From active ingredients to finished pills, the cost gap explained. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 02/03/2026 Contentious, complicated, controlled A medicine is a chain: feedstocks processed into key starting materials, synthesised into an active ingredient, combined with excipient ...