Views: 2 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 St ...

Views: 34 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: 89 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 ability ...

Views: 58 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: 60 The silent cost of manufactured imperial unity Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 15/06/2026 Installatie van de Staten-Generaal van de Nederlanden door koning Willem I in het stadhuis van Brussel op 21 september 1815 Over the past few weeks, right after my return from China, I was overjoye ...

Views: 70 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: 49 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: 72 Hidden gems in Shanghai Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 27/04/2026 Sunday afternoon coffee at the crossing of Jianguo road and Jiashan road. Maoming lu The current Maoming Road (茂名路) in Shanghai was once a street with a distinctly European identity, known during the Fr ...

Views: 129 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: 77 Shanghai Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 13/04/2026 All the common tourist spots in Shanghai Dentist Dental treatment in China definitely is at a higher level than in Europe. No waiting time for an appointment, cost approximately 1/3 of the cost in Europe. The Pudong tower ...

Views: 67 They’re not bad people. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 30/03/2026 In these uncertain times of chaos, displays of power and American twilight, I come here to plead for compassion for the American people. It is easy to mock the Americans. Their empire is rotting from within; the spectac ...

Views: 97 Unity and peace for our fractured world, beyond nostalgia. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 16/02/2026 Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Zhu De during the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, held in Yan’an in 1945. Help, I’m getting Communist From sceptic ...

Views: 169 A visitor’s testament to a people who remember how to sing. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 02/02/2026 All photos © Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 2025 In April last year, I wrote Peace, harmony and happiness in China. That article struck a chord: many of my readers in Europe found it di ...

Views: 92 The super-conductivity of Han-blue. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 19/01/2026 The alchemists who conquered colour: how ancient China mastered synthetic chemistry 2,800 years before Europe. Long before European chemists stumbled upon synthetic dyes in their 19th-century laboratorie ...

Views: 150 Freedom, democracy and truth. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波  10.12.2025 For the fainthearted: In this article, I will invite you to some self-reflection. I will challenge you with some uncomfortable observations about common patterns in our society. For those who prefer not ...