I'm not sure what the point of this blogpost was. As far as I can tell, the author discovered eval() but is making it more complicated for no reason? There also isn't any actual patching going on.
Imperial China is basically the Greek/Roman empire of East Asia. Both of these civilizations made deep and lasting impact on the culture of East Asia and Europe/North Africa/West Asia respectively.
Common practice for the websites of law firms (and some other fields like private equity) to have the headshots of all employees on their website with job title and description in a nice table.