W hen bilingual Chinese-American designer Alexander Wang was appointed as the head of Balenciaga in 2012, fashion insiders felt it signaled ...Read More
W hy are China’s 656 million farmers, slightly less than half of the population, so often referred to as “peasants” in English when this see...Read More
I f you visit Xishuang Banna, an “autonomous region” in southern Yunnan province bordering on Burma (Myanmar), you might find that Chinese f...Read More
T he Chinese economy has undergone some of the most dramatic changes in the world, and possibly human history, over the past one hundred yea...Read More
D ynasties in China refer to the period of political reign headed by a king or emperor and his descendants. There have been more than thirty...Read More
A lthough Mandarin Chinese is the official language of China, there are in fact myriad dialects of Chinese in addition to separate languages...Read More
W hen Deng Xiaoping died in 1997, Time magazine issued a special report with Deng on its cover, calling him “The Last Emperor.” The term was...Read More
D aoism (originally spelled “Taoism” in English) is one of the four major native religions of China the other three being ancestor worship, ...Read More
T he current Dalai Lama is the paramount spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born Tenzin Gyatso in 1935 in eastern Tibet. When he w...Read More