Monthly Archives: April 2012

Lam Qua was an interesting 19th century Chinese painter from Canton. He stood out from his peers for being a Western-styled specialist and was the first Chinese portrait painter to be exhibited in the West. His most famous body of … Continue reading →

Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming”: From Harper’s Weekly: Harper’s Weekly, Vol. 29 Imagine you are a stray dog living in the harsh frontier town of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The year is 1885. Your mother died in childbirth; … Continue reading →

“…The youngest was Little Peach Blossoms, the Old Master’s youngest daughter. She was three years younger than me, with sharp dimpled cheeks blessed with a perpetual smile and eyes that were most agreeable; the type that tears your heart if … Continue reading →

Charles Bonnet syndrome is a medical condition which describes patients with visual loss that have complex visual hallucinations, They are mentally healthy people with varying degree of visual impairment, have vivid, complex recurrent visual hallucinations often described as complex patterns … Continue reading →

“We want no more mixture of races. . . . No strong nation was ever born of mongrel races of men.” U.S. Senator La Fayette Grover (addressing the “Chinese Problem”), June 30, 18721 “Almighty God created the races white, black, … Continue reading →

By 1900, European nations including Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and Germany had already been eroding Chinese sovereignty for sixty years. They had forced China to import opium, in spite of the government’s ban, defeated China in several wars, asserted a … Continue reading →

The year 2012 will go down in history as the milestone year for self publishing and e-books. Self-publishing refers to the publication of any book by the author of the work without the involvement of an established third-party publisher. This … Continue reading →