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Hi everyone! This is Cheng Ting-Fang, your #techAsia host for the week, sending a warm hello from Taipei! I just returned to Asia from Barcelona — a city bursting with Gaudi’s artistic ...

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To spice things up, Empress Wu Zetian of China (the only woman to hold the title of an emperor) had to establish an actual institute known as Kong He Jian to manage her large number of lovers.

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The showiest patron of all may have been Empress Wu Zetian, whose desire for divine pro­jection—and protection—led her to oversee, in 695, the creation of the complex's largest statue ...

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