The massive annual Spring Festival migration is underway in China, and is off to a rough start, MSNBC reports: Snow and freezing rain at airports in China’s eastern cities of Hangzhou and southwestern region of Chongqing...
Read MoreA man beats a drum mounted to an old Flying Pigeon bicycle as part of a Chinese New Year procession in Zhangbi, Shanxi, by hunxue-er
Read MoreA migrant worker travels home for Chinese New Year, by dcmaster
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Read MoreWritten by Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Nobel Prize-winning economist, from New York Times: It’s the season when pundits traditionally make predictions about the year...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal’s China Journal is reporting that amidst the deafening fireworks in Shanghai during the Chinese New Year, another explosion went off with little notice: But whatever went off there that day, it...
Read MoreSlate Magazine looks at how modern urban Chinese celebrate the New Year, without many of the rituals and traditions of the past: While Chinatowns in America host flashy parades this month, city folk inside the People’s...
Read MoreThe history of the lion dance in China can be traced back nearly a thousand years. The traditional meaning of it is to scare away the devil “Nian” and welcome peace and fortune in the coming year. Unfortunately,...
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: The top leader of China’s Hunan province, Zhang Chunxian (º†Êò•Ë¥§), who took up his post in November 2006, has set the bar for official public relations savvy in Hu Jintao’s new drive to “develop [the Internet] well, use it well and manage it well” (ª∫ËÆæÂ•Ω„ÄÅÂà©Áî®Â•Ω„ÄÅÁÆ°ÁêÜ•Ω). In what some have read as […]
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