Content tagged with “china”

“No, it’s not a specific thing. According to Wikipedia : The Great Firewall is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People’s Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. So it’s not just software – it’s the combined effect of laws and implied threat of…”

“The best way to describe this is that it’s the ancient Chinese version of a tarot card deck. The I Ching is a divination tool which dates back to perhaps as early as 1,000 BC. It consists of a table of 64 ‘hexagrams,’ which correspond to an ordered combination of six lines which are either broken…”

“Like most countries in that region of the world, Taiwan is actually a chain of 168 islands. The biggest island – and the one most people think of when they think of ‘Taiwan’ – is called Formosa, and it comprises 99% of the total land area of the chain. The largest city, Taipei, is located here, as…”

“This was the depiction of East Asians as an existential threat to the Western World, mainly during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Asians were used as antagonists in movies, novels, and comic books, often portrayed as criminal masterminds bent on taking over the world. This was partially due to…”