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Along with refraining from using bad language, visiting hospitals and cutting their hair, Chinese people are expected to adhere to some pretty rigorous superstitions over Chinese New Year. Read more>>
Sep 25, 2010 Comments(0)
Photo: Nicolas 11mo Earlier this year, an article appeared in the New York Times that heaped praise on the Chinese writing system, extolling its virtues and pinning it as the vehicle and guardian of the country’s rich culture. The article inspired ...... Read More>>
Sep 21, 2010 Comments(1)
China’s recent ascension to the number two spot in the world’s economies has provided a new metric by which to describe its miraculous development. It seems that few foreign enterprises are choosing to sit out in favor of attempting to reach the ...... Read More>>
Sep 13, 2010 Comments(4)
Photo: english.peopledaily.com.cn One of the most frequently quoted (and often derided) tenet about China revolves around its claims to five millennia of history. Even the China National Tourist Office prefaces its operations by claiming that “China, ...... Read More>>
Sep 10, 2010 Comments(0)
Like most traditional festivals, the Moon Festival is steeped in legend. The ''Mid-autumn Festival'' probably started out as a celebration of the harvest season. But as time went on, and the celebration became more widespread, numerous stories sprang up ...... Read More>>
Jun 09, 2010 Comments(0)
Immigration has finally become a social issue worthy of discussion in China. Immigration as a social trend and privately discussed issue in China has been around for the longest time, but because there was a recent report about it in the media, the issue ...... Read More>>
Jun 08, 2010 Comments(0)
Wondering what all the talk of dragon boat festivals is about, and where to actually witness the important annual traditional events associated with the festival? Look no further; this article guides you through the origin, customs and meanings behind the ...... Read More>>
Mar 30, 2010 Comments(0)
Wine has only recently begun gaining popularity in China – unless you count the ever popular baijiu as “wine” which, for the sake of good taste and all that is decent in this world, I don’t. For centuries, wine was still considered ...... Read More>>
Mar 25, 2010
Below is a list of the top ten strangest characters that even most natives have a hard time deciphering. Do you know the pronunciation and meanings of these unusual Chinese characters? If you know five and more of these characters, you're better than most ...... Read More>>
Mar 13, 2010
We don't just need health care reform. We need a whole new way of looking at health. The medical industry gives lip-service to the idea that positive emotions help healing and negativity slows it. But we're still too arrogantly materialistic to accept the ...... Read More>>
Feb 18, 2010
The Year of the Tiger is upon us, and luckily it’s only the Year of the Tiger and not the real deal. As we bid farewell to the Ox, we usher in everything that’s fierce, orange and stripy. Fantastic. But as well as looking forward to what the ...... Read More>>
Feb 09, 2010
So you've decided to replace some of your daily coffee intake with Chinese tea. Wonderful. And you got yourself a tea kit, and a table to put it on. Even better. A daily tea-making ritual is right up there with long-distance running and mantra-chanting for ...... Read More>>
Jan 29, 2010 Comments(0)
This overview of Chinese food was written by Denis McKenna in late September 2008 after visiting Shanghai and other parts of China with son John & wife, Yan who live is this huge city. Chinese food in China can be a big surprise to the visiting ...... Read More>>
Nov 30, 2009 Comments(0)
During your time as an expat in China, the chances are you’ll be invited to a wedding of a friend or colleague. If so, you’re in for a treat. Chinese weddings are a lot of fun. However, the prospect of attending such an important event can be a ...... Read More>>
Nov 30, 2009 Comments(1)
Just about the minute most of us find out we’re going to become parents, and some even before, we start picking out the perfect name for our future son or daughter. Most of my friends, the woman at least, have had a list of names since high school or ...... Read More>>
Nov 24, 2009 Comments(0)
The older a fellow gets, the easier it becomes to condone, if not openly endorse, concubinage. Especially in China. Back west, almost all taboos have fallen, but not our need for them. Hence the ongoing prejudice there against May-December relationships, ...... Read More>>
Nov 03, 2009 Comments(0)
China’s history is a huge and daunting topic. Thousands of years, hundreds of emperors, dynasty after dynasty… But getting to grips with it all doesn’t need to be boring, and it certainly doesn’t have to take too long. In our series ...... Read More>>
Oct 20, 2009 Comments(0)
The men who have shaped history - Napoleon, Genghis Khan, et al - all had vision, endless energy, and indomitable will. We mere mortals like to believe they were two-dimensional overachievers. Had they felt, laughed, and cried as we do, they would have ...... Read More>>
Oct 15, 2009
On a cold February day more than three years ago, two children accompanied by caregivers, arrived at a train station in Dongguan from an orphanage in Jiangxi Province. After a 12-hour train ride, they were met at the train station by Jenny Smith, Executive ...... Read More>>
Oct 08, 2009
No stock photo, this: infopreneur Diane Wang Ask someone from the West to name a Chinese person. Yao Ming and "that runner" will take more than half of the first responses. Mao, Deng Xiaoping, and "the tank guy" will weigh heavily among the more informed. ...... Read More>>
Sep 29, 2009 Comments(3)
Besides creation of life and, depending on who you ask, the highest aim of life, sex also serves as a preserver of life. The sexual aspect of life force, qi, is qing essence. Cultivating and preserving qing essence isn't just a matter of selfish energy ...... Read More>>
Sep 15, 2009
There's usually not much historical authenticity near highways, even in China. But an hour out of Ningbo, a stone's throw from the expressway to Wenzhou, lies a town laid back, spring fresh, and blessedly oblivious to modernization. No river town, like ...... Read More>>
Aug 29, 2009
Traversing China I continue to be delighted and surprised with its amazing juxtapositions of the very old and new. My recent trip to Tongli, another of China's beautiful water towns, is no exception. The slow boat rides down ancient canals, past exquisite ...... Read More>>
Aug 22, 2009 Comments(0)
Small, slim, soft, pointed, straight, arched, fragrant. If you were a Chinese woman during the thousand years between the late Tang Dynasty and 1949, and your feet didn’t meet these criteria, you would have been doomed to a life of ridicule and social ...... Read More>>
Aug 14, 2009 Comments(0)
China Abroad Part 1: The Liverpool Connection Chinese people are possibly the world’s most visible race. As well as occupying one of the largest countries in the world, the Chinese presence across the globe is huge. Just think of any big city in the ...... Read More>>
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