Category: East Asia

Refined by: (Author) Anchi Hoh; (Year) 2021

Large metal hollow globe on a metal frame with metal orbit trails surrounding it

Mysticism and Prophecy in “Tui bei tu” 推背圖 (Back-pushing Pictures)

April 19, 2021

Allegedly created by astronomer-astrologers in the Tang dynasty (618-907), the book of prophecies known as “Tui bei tu” 推背圖 (“Back-pushing Pictures”) is the most renowned work of Chinese mysticism.

Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia

Forced Migration: Biographies of the Soviet Koreans Who Helped to Establish the North Korean State

January 22, 2021

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

Learn more about a unique collection of 80 biographies of Soviet Korean leaders sent by the Soviet Communist Party to help establish North Korea’s government in the late 1940s.

Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia

Refined by: (Author) Anchi Hoh; (Year) 2021