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Shimenkan is a township in the northwest of Guizhou province that is hard to find on most maps.  But in the beginning of the 20th century, mail from Europe could easily find its way there with the letter or parcel simply addressed  "Shimenkan China." It was well known both in China and abroad as "the sacred place of the ethnic Miao cultural renaissance" and "the supreme cultural district of the southwest ethnic Miao group."  It's hard to imagine how several dozens of churches, schools, hospitals, orphanage and a cloth weaving factory were erected on top of mountains in that area.  More unimaginable is that the Miao people there have a unique written language, created for them by an English missionary named Samuel Pollard.  The language is referred to as the "Pollard Script" in Western countries.
/Article by Zheng Qian Photo by Guan Haitong
Historical photos provided by Cheng Qiji Zhang Jian Wang Dawei Du Yinguo 
Samuel Pollard's Wonderful Achievement in China
Samuel Pollard -- A Charitable Man
The Heritage of Samuel Pollard
Samuel Pollard - Personification of Confucius and Jesus Christ

Cultural Heritage
Legend has it that Da Ge (grand songs) of the ethnic Dong people were stolen from heaven......
Discovery of Polyphonic Singing:  Exquisite to the Extreme
-Secret of Grand Songs of the Dong people
/Article by Wu Dingguo and Deng Minwen  Photo by Wang Haitao
Go and Listen to Songs Stolen from Heaven /Article and photo by Wang Haitao
The Impact of Modernization on Da Ge (big song) of Dong People
/Article by Wang Haitao
Doubtlessly, Naren Abi was a real person. She had a real name. There are historical documents recording her exploits. She had offspring who survive to this today. However, she was also someone in between a human and a God. Legend has it that she had inexhaustible magic power,  that she founded the practice of bonesetting in traditional Mongolian medicine and was herself a bonesetter with her name known throughout the Mongolian region and even in the whole of the Qing Dynasty.
Two Hundred Years of History,A Legend of Five Generations
-- A story about the bonesetting family of the Mongolian medicine on the Korqin Grassland /Article by Jiang Ling  Photo by Li Xiaoqin
In Front of the Tomb of Naren Abei / Article by Jiang Ling(4n9)

Memory
Torch Festival -Ethnic Yi Ritual for Fire Worshiping 
/Article and photo by Hu Xiaoping
"Jiangnan" is a special word in the Chinese language: it is not only the geographic region south of the lowest reaches of the Yangtze River; more importantly, it is a term that has also come to mean an idyllic emotion or ideal living.
Memories of Jiangnan / Article and photo by Shao Dalang
Flowing landscape: Silhouetted sailboat on the river /Article and photo by Shao Dalang

For a "Feel" of China
Travelog of Julie Peters

Transmission Of History
You may be surprised, or curious, when we tell you stories about what happened in the era of sword fighting, after all, ours is the era of nuclear weapons. But we are not going to tell you stories about weapons, rather stories about the greatest defensive structure ever build:  the Great Wall at Datong in northern China, which witnessed many wars in ancient times.
The Great Wall You May not Know
-Stories about ancient wars fought in Datong / Article and photo by Wu Jianguo 

Art Appreciation
Ground-breaking exploration with a paintbrush / Article by Kang Zheng
Hu Baoli and His Landscape Painting /Article by Yang Cheng