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  The Corporate Monk: When Tinder Meets Thousand-Year Temples If you ever want to witness the exquisite comedy of modern institutional despe...

  The Grand Optical Illusion: When Sun Yat-sen Salutes the Five-Star Red Flag If you ever want to witness the exquisite comedy of historical...

  Beyond the Finish Line: Why Western Independence is Just a Modern Myth Western parenting has a finish line. You raise a child to leave. Mo...

  The Scissors of Malice: Why Ancient Folks Invented DIY Prison Sentences History is a magnificent, cynical museum of human petty malice, st...

  The Broken Axe and the Roof Tile: Why Ancient Folk Magic Was Just Passive-Aggressive Debt Collection History is a magnificent, cynical mus...

  The Kitchen Stove Criminology: Why Ancient Chinese Bureaucracy Invented Magic to Solve Petty Theft History is a magnificent, cynical museu...

  The Waxing and Waning of the Human Wick Humans are the only primates obsessed with ritualizing the inevitable. We are biologically program...

  The Twenty-Four Hour Dim Sum: Legislating the Soul Guangzhou has recently decided that the "soul" of its morning tea—the  yum ch...

  The Last Dance: When Death Gets a Modern Makeover There’s a peculiar comfort in the specific. Most people leave instructions for their inh...

  The Willow and the Whip: Rituals of Invisible Walls Today marks the centenary of Queen Elizabeth II’s birth, a milestone that turns the qu...

  The High Altar of Pedantry: When Tradition Meets a Tactical Saber This brilliant piece of satire from  The Cambridge Onion  is more than j...

  What's The Deal With Wedding Entrance Fees? I’ve been watching the news, reading the papers, and I’ve got to ask: what’s with these we...