Regarding the author of "The Dream of the Red Chamber," the greatest novel ever written in the Chinese language.

I think the Ming Dynasty novel contains in it a history of the Chinese Communist Party written centuries before the Party existed.

The tale of the Ming Dynasty general who switched sides and helped to bring it down and the woman whose legendary beautiful supposedly made him do it.

Regarding one of the greatest calligraphers who ever lived, and one of the worst prime ministers in Chinese history

A most significant military family during the Northern Song Dynasty.

About a classical Chinese expression and the two men behind it.

Regarding the late-Ming mandarin and his ethical choices.

August 1, 1927: a date that lives in PRC history.

Mt. Lu or Lushan, the object of so much classical Chinese poetry, the site of so much modern Chinese history.

The Han Dynasty inventor of the Taichu Calendar.

Tales from the Altai Mountains.

A lesser known figure who saved the Southern Song Dynasty in 1161.

The reason why so few Buddhist temples from before the mid-9th century survive in China.

The Ming Dynasty prince who worked out the modern musical scale.

The Chinese version of the Cinderella story and the 9th century collection in which it appears.

The legend of the Eight Immortals, which gradually arose starting during the Tang Dynasty, particularly associated with the town of Penglai in Shandong.

The remarkable stateswoman of Ming Dynasty Guizhou.

In 1927, when Nanjing and Wuhan were both capitals of the ROC...

The triple university that continued the educational mission through WWII.

On the North and South Dynasties philosopher who argued against the immortality of the soul.

The late-Song prime minister with a terrible reputation.

Zhengde or Wuzong of Ming, a most perplexing ruler.

The Ming mandarin who helped, 400 years later, to start the Cultural Revolution.

The most successful military commander of the mid-to-late-Ming Dynasty.

The major Song Dynasty philosopher who began to formulate Neo-Confucianism.