The Interesting Side of Everything: China and the World, Four-Book Set

The pursuit of knowledge through investigation, with fascinating history you would never expect. Did you know? Fans were originally symbols of authority, kites were the earliest flying machines, invented during the Wei and Jin dynasties, Beijing’s central axis is crooked, Sun Wukong may have been “imported” from India, qipao dresses are designed with “nine lifts and three curves,” people in the Han dynasty received year-end bonuses, Tang dynasty couples made a fine art of divorce, dumplings have a surprisingly deep connection to Zhang Zhongjing, the Sage of Medicine, and the architectural models made by the “Yangshi Lei” family could put modern ones to shame...