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We speak to the author, Dr Zhaoyuan Wan, to find out more about him and his recently published Notes and Records article.

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, a Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant recipient, describes how early Fellows of the Society showed a profound interest in China as a source of scientific and technological knowledge.

We welcome Zhiwei Zhong to the Proceedings B editorial board.

Professor Sir Keith Burnett FRS writes following the Royal Society's recent workshop with the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Artificial Intelligence.

Tossing heavy woks is a contributing factor to shoulder pain amongst chefs in Chinese restaurants. To celebrate Chinese New Year, we look back on a paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface which used modelling to optimise the process.

We caught up with Liwu recently in order to get to know him better and to find out more about his research on the interaction of light and matter in the environment.

Royal Society author Dr Yutao Xiao tells us about his research, his Newton International Fellowship award, and a successful collaboration between the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (AGIS-CAAS) and Lancaster University.

Wei-Guo Du from the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing joined the editorial board in January 2020.

As part of our continued outreach to international authors, editors and early career researchers, Andrew Dunn, Senior Publishing Editor for our journal Royal Society Open Science, took a trip to China. After spending six days in and around Beijing, he tells us where he went, what he did and, perhaps most importantly, what he learned.

Jon Bushell looks at connections between the Royal Society and China, and tells the story of how a Ming Dynasty banknote found its way into our collections.