The Asian lion
The Asian lion, formerly also present on the Mediterranean coasts, was the animal that most of all embodied the ideal of royalty and power, so much so that it was…
The mongols
A small presentation to the Mongols, legendary people of whom we will talk about these days. From the distant Altai mountains to warm Delhi, a small summary of the long…
The vegetable lamb of Tartary
An extraordinary plant, whose origins have not yet been fully understood and which for centuries became one of the enigmas of the great botanists. The vegetable lamb, a mythical creature…
Mandrake, the human plant
Legendary plant for anyone who is familiar with fantasy and the Middle Ages; the mandrake has a history with ancient and powerful roots, able to bewitch even today as it…
The history of the poppy
Poppy is without a shadow of a doubt one of the most extraordinary flowers that humanity has experience, capable of representing, with all its fibers, different aspects of human life.…
The liberation of Xinjiang
The last chapter of the Dungan riots sees the Xinjiang civilians as protagonists, determined more than ever to get rid of Yaqub Beg, who quickly turned from a liberator to…
Shaanxi
Zuo Zongtang and the Hui uprising
The choice of how to pacify the Hui uprisings is a fundamental reading key to understanding the presence of Islam in China. On the one hand, General Zuo Zongtang massacred,…
Yaqub Beg, lord of Kashgaria
Finally we start to really talk to you about the Dungan Uprising, starting from one of its particular and controversial characters: Yaqub Beg, the lord of Kashgaria. The arrive in…
Hong Xiuquan, the "brother of Jesus Christ"
The Opium War and the Taiping Uprising
2 events that had unforeseen and terrifying consequences for China, bringing it to the threshold of destruction for the first time due to the invasion of foreign powers and the…
Sufi wars in China (pre-Dungan)
Before the outbreak of the Dungan riots, there is a very recent clarification on the political and religious situation in China at the end of the 18th century, focusing in…
