Nail Farmers Shelter Old Gods
In a follow-up to a recent New York Times article at Sinosphere, Ian Johnson notes the role of...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 13, 2013
In a follow-up to a recent New York Times article at Sinosphere, Ian Johnson notes the role of...
by Natalie Ornell | Jul 20, 2013
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...
by Natalie Ornell | Jul 13, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 29, 2013
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,...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 23, 2005
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 […]