[Photo provided to China Daily] In their new book China Simplified: History Flashback, Stewart Lee Beck and co-author Sun Zhumin created colorful descriptions for historical figures such as "the ...

Jefferson, famous for the Declaration of Independence, is also often quoted from a letter he wrote in 1816 to John Adams: " I ...

Many characters in simplified Chinese were never simplified at all ... Over time, some of these forms became widely used variant characters in their own right. In short, over the long course of ...

History has no ideology. This is true in the sense that the events of the past themselves don’t have any implicit bias. But whenever we tell history, a natural bias will emerge. This bias can ...

Such is not the conclusion, but the starting point of a study by Olivier Darrigol, in which he sets out to give a simplified account of the complex history of quantum mechanics, and its early ...

THERE have been numerous books about the Easter Rising to mark its centenary, but Joan O’Reilly’s Simplified History — The 1916 Rising is definitely the most concise and accessible ...