History, Myth, and Missions
Every nation has its national cultural mythology, part truth and part legend. Sometimes it is in formal social consensus around a “civil religion,” like American patriotism, which sees a role...
Every nation has its national cultural mythology, part truth and part legend. Sometimes it is in formal social consensus around a “civil religion,” like American patriotism, which sees a role...
...news for Beijing-based travelers who’d rather visit Las Vegas than Macau: Hainan Airlines just announced that it will launch a new flight between the Chinese capital and Sin City later this year....
...Shanghai rushed onto the tarmac, disrupting the arrival of an incoming Emirates flight, the official Xinhua news agency said. Two days later, several Hainan Airlines passengers at the international airport...
...than why ABGs (American-born Germans) should speak German or why ABVs (American-born Vietnamese) should speak Vietnamese, etc. In this video, ABCs explain for themselves why they can’t speak Chinese. New...
...out of American imports to tax. China matched Mr. Trump’s initial tariffs on about $50 billion in Chinesegoods, but last month he placed a 10 percent tax on $200 billion...
...Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials. They...
...of the chair. Flight 370 Families Maintain Support Group on WeChat (May 7, 2014, China Real Time) The families of passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will no longer regularly...
...injured.Six people allegedly tried to hijack Tianjin Airlines’ Flight GS 7554 just 10 minutes after it took off from the Hotan Airport at 12:25 p.m. and en route to the...
...of the East (东方圣城).” The Glamour and the Gloom of Cabin Life for China’s Female Flight Attendants (September 12, 2025, The World of Chinese) With many American and European airlines...
...welcome? American companies fear China's turning its back on them (January 18, 2017, Chicago Tribune) American companies don't feel welcome in China any more. And while Chinese President Xi Jinping...
...Airlines Are Sitting Out China’s Reopening (May 10, 2023, Bloomberg) (registration required) United, Delta and American are pressing Washington to ban Chinese planes headed to or from the US from flying over Russia....
...Edition] (Amazon) Ddalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose...