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During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese state sought to eradicate religious life throughout the country. But by 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping cautiously embraced the revival of religion. At the same time, the newly elected Pope John Paul II made a point of renewing outreach to China. Paul P. Mariani tracks the fate of Chinese Catholicism in the wake of these transformative leadership changes, focusing on the influential Catholic community in Shanghai.

Pumps? Power plants? Chemical Plants? ALL OF THE ABOVE! Examine the chemical factory theory proposed by Geoffrey Drumm and others—the only theory that explains the need for the gigantic size and weight of the pyramids, as well as the bizarre architecture of their internal cavities. The theory integrates “competing” theories as possible physically assistive components of the chemical processes, giving more credibility to these other theories which seem to lack purpose on their own. “Recent LIDAR discoveries have revealed that vast swaths of the Amazon Rainforest are hiding an ...

In the grand sweep of Chinese history, the woman warrior is both ever-present and curiously obscured. She appears in poems and operas, in dynastic chronicles and martial folklore, yet she is rarely centered in the official narratives of empire. She is often remembered not by name, but by role: the filial daughter, the loyal wife, the grieving mother, the rebel widow. And yet, she endures. From the legendary Hua Mulan to the pirate queen Ching Shih, from the drum-beating general Liang Hongyu to the revolutionary matron Mother Lü, Chinese history is threaded with women who took up arms—not...

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