Nail Farmers Shelter Old Gods
In a follow-up to a recent New York Times article at Sinosphere, Ian Johnson notes the role of...
chinese tradition
We’ll Always Have Dumplings ….
Returning to Beijing after a few years away, NPR’s Anthony Kuhn reports that traditionally polite questions like “how are you” and “have you eaten” no longer fit the bill. Now his main question...
One Month Cocoons Draw New Moms
A report on The World discusses the Chinese tradition called “zuo yue zi”, when women enter a month of bed rest with their babies after giving birth. Ruth Morris reports that in China’s expanding confinement...
‘Chinese-Style’ Crackdown vs. ‘Chinese-Style’ Crossing
Global Times’ Chang Meng describes an ongoing campaign against road safety violations as typical of short-term, unsustainable crackdowns whose effects barely outlast the campaigns themselves. “You insane people,...
Westerners and Easterners see the world differently – Zeeya Merali
From New Scientist: Chinese and American people see the world differently – literally. While Americans focus on the central objects of photographs, Chinese individuals pay more attention to the image as a whole, according to psychologists at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, US. “There is plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that Western and […]
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