Asian Dynasties and History

Saturday, 9 January 2010


	White Russians in Shanghai (Part 1 of 2) MARIA MAXIMOVA Fleeing from the Bolsheviks, thousands of White Russians made Old Shanghai their home away from home. Maria Maximova searches for remnants of the enclave.
	White flight from Red Russia (Part 2 of 2) MARIA MAXIMOVA
	Asia's ancient artforms CHIA MING CHIEN For three people, with more than 75 years of martial arts training between them, the fighting arts have transformed into music, movement and meditation. Chia Ming Chien traces their journeys.
	From Persia to the Islamic Republic DAN-CHYI CHUA If the Nazis won, Hitler might have proclaimed their new empire Iran.
	Fight of the moon goddesses LEE HAN SHIH The hunt for new sources of energy on the Moon is propelling a new space race.
	Chang'e, the Chinese goddess in the moon LEE HAN SHIH
	Kaguya, the Japanese moon goddess LEE HAN SHIH
	Talking Buddhism LEE HAN SHIH Some 1,100 years after Prince Siddhartha Gautama founded a philosophy in India, two monks in China created a fissure in his teachings that still affects the hundreds of millions of Buddhists today.
	Ancient Asian surgeons FELICIA YAP Modern medicine and dentistry owe a lot to ancient Asian practitioners.
	Don't tell the Japanese instant noodles is really Chinese! LEE HAN SHIH In 2000, the Japanese public voted instant noodles as the most important food invented in the 20th century. Little do they know that it was invented by a Chinese.