As the northeastern United States is hit by its first big winter storm and New Yorkers try to figure out what to do with all the food they’ve stocked up on,...
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Jia Zhangke’s (??? / ???) latest lamentation on contemporary China is Smog Journeys, a short film made for environmental activist group Greenpeace East Asia about the country’s notorious air pollution...
Two experts on China weigh in on China’s confidence in recent articles: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, and the author, most recently, of China...
If you’re a Chinese media artist under the age of 35, you might be interested in the following: TASML and Eyebeam are pleased to announce a new prize for emerging...
Touching only briefly on Santa’s sweatshops and the kitschy, but endearing (when it comes to Christmas, it’s all good), ways China celebrates Christmas, The Atlantic teaches us about the Chinese spirit of Christmas...
While Santa’s workshop gets all the credit for bringing joy and fun to Christmas, the mood of the holidays is set by all the decorations put up at home, the office, and...
China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard W. French has been named to The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2014 and...
June 2 is the Duanwu Festival (端午节), known in English as the Dragon Boat Festival. It is a traditional Chinese holiday that falls on the fifth day of the fifth...
The old joke is that China’s waistline is growing faster than its GDP. According to a paper published earlier this year in the medical journal The Lancet, out of...
Three Monks (三个和尚 / 三個和尚) is a classic Chinese animation released by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (上海美术电影制片厂 / 上海美術電影製片廠) in 1980 during a period of cultural rebirth following the Cultural Revolution....