Protecting China’s Animals in the Monkey Year
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
traditional culture
Why China Is Turning Back to Confucius
In the Wall Street Journal, Jeremy Page takes an in-depth look at Xi Jinping’s turn toward...
Uyghur Rocker Navigates Two Divided Worlds
At McClatchy DC, Stuart Leavenworth profiles Perhat Khaliq, a Uyghur musician now in the middle of...
As Kite Makers Age, Lofty Tradition Goes to Ground
McClatchy’s Stuart Leavenworth reports from Weifang, Shandong, China’s kite capitol,...
Xi Jinping’s Dreaming of a Red Christmas
At BloombergView, Adam Minter reports that the Chinese Communist Party is renewing a campaign to...
Cremation Rules Spur Elderly Suicides in Anhui
Didi Kirsten Tatlow at The New York Times reports that some elderly people in Anhui have committed...
‘Once the Villages Are Gone, the Culture Is Gone’
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
Nail Farmers Shelter Old Gods
In a follow-up to a recent New York Times article at Sinosphere, Ian Johnson notes the role of...
Crickets Fight it Out at China’s National Championship
After being banned during the Cultural Revolution, cricket fighting (斗蟋蟀), a traditional Chinese...
Is China Really in a Gilded Age?
Teng He of Tea Leaf Nation writes that the Chinese masses have revived imperial-era phrases to...
Falcon Training in China’s Northeast
Evie Liu at CNN gives a brief sketch of a small village in northeastern China where falconry is still a common practice among local men: In China’s Jilin province, the tiny rural community of Ying Tun — known here as...
China to Banish Superstition, Promote Knowledge
Reuters covers State Administration of Religious Affairs director Wang Zuoan’s position on the importance of discouraging “superstitious” religious belief and promoting scientifically informed knowledge, as he...
Yu Hua: Feudal Answers for Modern Problems
While the Communist Party has long-excluded religion from its vision for China, some Chinese officials and common people still hold on to rather feudal beliefs. The well-known author, Yu Hua, tells stories on the New York Times:...
China’s Singular Sexual Revolution
In Behind the Red Door, Richard Burger examines various aspects of sex in China, both throughout history and in the resurgence of sexual freedom currently underway. From Mara Hvistendahl at Los Angeles Review of Books: [… T]he...
Chinese Opera, Abridged, at Metropolitan Museum
Last Friday, audiences at the Metropolitan Museum enjoyed an abridged version of a well-known piece of Kunqu, the oldest form of Chinese opera: ‘The Peony Pavilion’. From James R. Oestreich’s review at the New...
Old Building Restoration Taking a Hold in China
Starting from the reinvention of Dashilar, a historical neighborhood in Beijing, innovative architects are racking their brains to balance city development and cultural preservation. From Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore at The Los...
Ancient Morality Text Updated for Young
China has updated the ’24 Filial Exemplars’, an ancient morality text, to promote filial piety among the new generation. From Tania Branigan at The Guardian: The original 24 Filial Exemplars date from around the 14th...
Adam Minter: Wanting Change, Chinese Get on Their Knees
For Bloomberg, Adam Minter writes about the complex social and political implications of recent images that have been passed around online of people kneeling in China, including several instances of student kneeling before their...
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