Protecting China’s Animals in the Monkey Year
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 11, 2016
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 20, 2015
In the Wall Street Journal, Jeremy Page takes an in-depth look at Xi Jinping’s turn toward...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 11, 2015
At McClatchy DC, Stuart Leavenworth profiles Perhat Khaliq, a Uyghur musician now in the middle of...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 19, 2015
McClatchy’s Stuart Leavenworth reports from Weifang, Shandong, China’s kite capitol,...
by Cindy | Dec 26, 2014
At BloombergView, Adam Minter reports that the Chinese Communist Party is renewing a campaign to...
by Natalie Ornell | May 29, 2014
Didi Kirsten Tatlow at The New York Times reports that some elderly people in Anhui have committed...
by Natalie Ornell | Feb 2, 2014
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
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 Josh Rudolph | Oct 10, 2013
After being banned during the Cultural Revolution, cricket fighting (斗蟋蟀), a traditional Chinese...
by Scott Greene | Aug 22, 2013
Teng He of Tea Leaf Nation writes that the Chinese masses have revived imperial-era phrases to...
by 不忘初心 | Jul 24, 2013
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...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 21, 2013
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...
by 不忘初心 | Apr 11, 2013
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:...
by 不忘初心 | Dec 19, 2012
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...
by 不忘初心 | Dec 4, 2012
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...
by 不忘初心 | Oct 21, 2012
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...
by 不忘初心 | Aug 19, 2012
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...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 10, 2011
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...