By Jeff J. BrownPictured above: circa 1950s poster showing women doing traditional men’s work, with Mao’s famous declaration, “Women hold up half the sky.” The style is interesting, because the painting is done like Chinese cut paper or a woodcut, to give it a classic feel. If you read Chinese, you will notice the word…
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By Jeff J. Brown Above: this political cartoon from The Economist was published when pro-reunification Ma Ying-Jiou was Taiwan’s President, through 2015, but the fundamental dynamics have not changed since pro-separatist Tsai Ing-Wen took his place: Baba Beijing and the People’s Republic of China hold all the cards. Note: When finished reading, listening to and/or…
By Jeff J. Brown Above: hats off to www.visualcapitalist.com for such a fascinating and informative map. This is what Western empire is up against. China’s GDP in purchasing power parities (PPPs) surpassed the United States in 2014, as the world’s biggest economy, and it’s just getting started, I mean restarted, back to the 5,000 years…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: several of the 15,000 electric city buses Shenzhen has put on the streets, many, if not most of them in the last year. They are at a charging station in Futian,…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: July 1st Glacier, above Jiayuguan in Gansu, China, which sits at 5,000 meters above sea level. Photo from the book, 44 Days, by Jeff J. Brown Thousands…
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