Neon reflections and skyline dreams. The SIP comes alive after dark. Not just classical gardens and canals. Loving the futuristic side of Suzhou.

#Suzhou #China #Jiangsu #SuzhouIndustrialPark #JinjiLake #GateOfTheOrient #NightPhotography #Cityscape #UrbanPhotography #CityLights #Skyline #NightVibes #TravelChina #ModernChina

Jia Zhangke: Master of Chinese Cinema - The Revolutionary Filmmaker Who Captured Modern China’s Soul

Discover how Jia Zhangke revolutionized Chinese cinema through his groundbreaking documentation of China’s transformation. From his banned early films to international acclaim at Venice and Cannes…

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#BOTD (for real this time): Lufei Kui 陸費逵 (1886–1941), #Chinese #linguist, reformer, educator, and founder of Zhonghua (Chung Hwa) Book Company #中華書局. #ModernChina #ChineseLinguistics #Publishers
#BOTD: Qian Xuantong 錢玄同 (1887–1939), Chinese writer and linguist, one of the leaders of the May Fourth and New Culture Movement #五四運動 #新文化運動; a promoter of #Esperanto, he wanted to abolish Written Chinese. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #白話文 #文言文 #新青年 #疑古派 #學衡 #linguist #ModernChina #Linguistics
#BOTD: Kuan Kwang Tsoong 鍾觀光 (1868–1940), Chinese #botanist. #Botany #Science #ModernChina
#BOTD in #ModernChina: Rong Geng 容庚 (1894–1983), palaeographer and expert on Zhou 周 (1045–256 BCE) bronze inscriptions 金文. Student of Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940).
#DOTD: Chen Mengjia 陳夢家 (1911–suicide 1966), #Chinese scholar of palaeography and archaeology, an expert on oracle bones #甲骨文 and bronze inscriptions #金文 from the Yin-Shang 殷商 period (16th–11th cent. BCE). #CulturalRevolution #文化大革命 #ModernChina
#DOTD (2024/08/30): Qian Mu 錢穆 (1895–1990), one of the most important intellectual #historians of the twentieth century. #ModernChina #國史大綱 New #Confucianism #宋明理學