Chinese internet giant ByteDance has donated 25 million yuan (US$3.4 million) to digitise a national cultural project that is compiling all known Confucius classics, with the help of artificial intelligence. ByteDance, the parent company of Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, said the donation would support the compilation and digitisation of the Ruzang, or “Confucian … Read more
The ancient city of Dunhuang, which for centuries welcomed Western merchants travelling along the legendary silk road to China, could be a “perfect platform” to improve China-US relations, according to an American research professor. Neil Schmid is the first and only Western scholar hired by the Dunhuang Academy in northwest China’s Gansu province to study … Read more
It was nice to be with my friends all the time. Oxford was a lovely place to grow up in. I wasn’t in the top set, but I was in the one below that. I was quite clever, vaguely sporty and very competitive. Max Johnson (left) with Boris Johnson (second left) and other family members, … Read more
