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Bridging Cultures
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 5 America celebrates several Heritage Months each year. This fifth month of...
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More Early East-West Connections?
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 4 I recently wrote about U.S.-China connections in Gilded Age America. Today I...
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China-America: Thinking of Ironies
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 3 gpsnews.ucsd.edu This issue looks at ironies in the U.S.-China...
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America-China Links: Snapshot from the Late Gilded Age
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 2 America and China have been directly linked for almost two-and-one-half...
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The Dragon Nation (America)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 1 The Chinese (aka Lunar) New Year arrives this weekend on February 10, 2024....
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Ming Porcelain in Enlightenment Portugal
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 38 Chapel Vestibule, Fronteira Palace The Portuguese fell in love with...
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A Bold Triptych in the Heart of 16th Century European Globalism
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 36 Today's Issue claims only a wispy connection with China, so please indulge...
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China and America: The Presidents Special Edition
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 36, Vol. 2, Issue 35 (Special) Xi Jinping and Joseph Biden (Doug Mills The...
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China and America: Where Are We Going?
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America Vol. 2, Issue 35 I am concerned. About America. About China. About the evolution of our...
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The Ferengi is a Frank: Linguistic Lore Across the Centuries
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 34 Portuguese in India, c. 1548 Frank, Farang , Ferenghi , Folangji ,...
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China and the World Order
America has been the dominant world power since at least the end of World War II and wants to retain this role. China seeks to reclaim...
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Buddhist Art in Southern India (The Early Years)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 32 China is the land of the “Three Teachings” – Confucianism, Daoism, and...
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Cape Cod Women Sailing to China in the Nineteenth Century
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 30 The historical Cape Cod and China Connection came to me again during a...
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Encounters with Asia in the Hudson River Valley (Part 3)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 28 This third and final installment of Asia in the Hudson River Valley brings...
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World's Largest Buddhist Stupa
Continuing with the Buddhist theme I wrote about last week, the following is an excerpt from my visit to the world's largest stupa in...
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Encounters with Asia in the Hudson River Valley (Part 2)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and Americal, Vol. 2, Issue 27 Today’s Encounters with Asia in the Hudson River Valley (Part 2) visits a...
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Chinese Landscape in the Berkshires
Mabel Choate spent one month in Beijing in 1935. She brought home porcelains, lacquers, stone sculptures, snuff bottles, paintings, and...
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Encounters with Asia in the Hudson River Valley (Part 1)
I was recently back in Dutchess County, New York, to attend my college reunion. A weekend of old and new. I retraced my steps to the...
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David Hockney on Inspiration, Looking Forward, and China
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 25 A friend recently blogged her reaction to a short YouTube video of famed...
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Reading to Write
During the Covid years, I was offered a collection of art magazines and catalogues. When going through the bags, I discovered that the...
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