Old North Whale Review
JingYuOld North Whale = 老北鲸 Lǎo Běi Jīng ≈ 老北京 Lǎo Běijīng. Tracing the tangled roots of modern China’s ‘Chineseness’ across history, culture, and art.
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How Mandarin Became Standard Chinese
Chinese history holds two opposing views on Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇), the first emperor of China. He was the man who unified the country in 221 BCE, standardizing currency, axle widths, and, above all, the written script: 书同文 (shū tóng wén). The...
Will AI Become Your Delegate in Democracy?
How local governance experiments in China preview the future of automated representation
A team of AI and sociology researchers at Renmin University of China (RUC) recently interviewed 92 residents of a Beijing urban community for two hour...
Why I built an AI Map for Ancient Architecture
I’m always fond of exploring places where time got encapsulated, where you wander into a rural village nobody recommends and find a preserved temple hall standing quietly behind a primary school.
Traditional Chinese architecture has held m...
Why the West Fears AI and China Doesn’t
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report found that over 83% of Chinese respondents see AI products as more beneficial than harmful. In the United States, the number is 39%.
Geoffrey Hinton’s warnings about the existential threat of AI have rarely...
When China Was the Edge of the World
China in Chinese, 中国 (Zhōngguó), means “Middle Kingdom.” For most of its history the country believed it. But for several centuries the imported Buddhism told a different story: that the Chinese lived at the rim of the world, and that the t...
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