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Origins story: the memorial of the first national congress of the CPC in Shanghai, China. EPA-EFE/Alex Plavevski

China’s Communist Party at 100: revolution forever

As it celebrates it’s 100th birthday, the Chinese ruling party’s latest programme of education aims to harness the power of youth in its own interests.
Li Kui (李逵), one of the characters in The Water Margin, battles tigers after they killed his mother. Utagawa Kuniyoshi, between between 1845 and 1850. Wikimedia

Guide to the classics: The Water Margin, China’s outlaw novel

In The Water Margin, first put to paper in the 14th century, local injustice is the rule, and defence against cruel local authority is a matter of vengeance, stratagem, and violence
Dragon rising: detail from Nine Dragons by Chen Rong. Song Dynasty

Booker Prize reform heralds a cultural revolution for 2014

Clustering around this week’s Man Booker Prize was a bustling array of captions: “the longest book”; “the youngest winner”; “the second New Zealander”; “the last Commonwealth Booker” and, over and again…

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