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A woman visitor looks at a pornographic clay of early 19th century at the Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture in Shanghai.

Sex in Shanghai? The Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture

* * * Shanghai would seem the perfect home for a sex museum given a colonial history that at its ...

China AFP/Benjamin Morgan

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Legend of the Chinese Zodiac

In my family, we have a dog, an ox, a rat, a tiger, and two dragons! When such a varied bunch sit...

China / Malaysia / Singapore Audrey Lim

Front cover for Warrior Odyssey

Book review: Warrior Odyssey - Antonio Graceffo

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to set off on a quest around Asia, researching and d...

China / Vietnam / Myanmar David Calleja

Touch

Dreams and Relationships Take Center Stage at Cinequest 2012

This year, of the fifteen Asian or Asia-related entries, nine were available on DVD for pre-scree...

China / Vietnam / Myanmar Celeste Heiter

The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay

Book Review: The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay

Kim Fay's The Map of Lost Memories takes its characters and its readers into a forbidden world of...

China / Vietnam / Cambodia Celeste Heiter

Book cover for Antonio Graceffo's upcoming book, Warrior Odyssey.

A Warrior's Odyssey - Interview with Antonio Graceffo

Antonio Graceffo's eagerly anticipated new book, Warrior Odyssey, covers the beginning of his tre...

China / Vietnam / Myanmar David Calleja

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Chinese Filmmaker Jia Zhangke

Once-banned, director Jia Zhangke seeks wider audience in China...

China AFP/D'Arcy Doran

The floor to ceiling tree in a Hong Kong shopping mall

Christmas in Hong Kong

I've lived in Hong Kong for six years and people from North America always ask me "How do you cel...

China MaryLou Driedger

'In the Mood for Love' Film Review

'Mood' is the operative word in this 1960's bittersweet period piece, written and directed by Kar...

China Celeste Heiter

Tony Leung and and Wei Tang in Lust, Caution

Film Review: Lust, Caution

Ang Lee steps into the world of film noir with his World War II romantic thriller starring Wei Ta...

China Celeste Heiter

Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai 's 2046 stars Tony Leung, Faye Wong and Zhang Ziyi.

Wong Kar-wai's 2046

* * * It was a film some cynics suggested would never be finished. But after four years in the ma...

China AFP/Neil Western

View of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, from the Peak.

You Need Massage?

What am I doing in a Gucci shop? It's an accident, of course. Somehow, on my first full day in Ho...

China Joe Lavin

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Chinese Teens Respond To Amy Chau's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Amy Chau has gained international attention since an excerpt from her new book Battle Hymn of the...

China / Singapore / Taiwan MaryLou Driedger

The Chi Lin Nunnery

Hong Kong's Chi Lin Nunnery

The Chi Lin Nunnery is a 'must see' when you visit Hong Kong. No cost has been spared in making t...

China MaryLou Driedger

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Transcending Tragedy at Cinequest 2010

Now in its 20th year, the Cinequest Film Festival, held each year in San Jose, Calif., presents a...

China / Singapore / Uzbekistan Celeste Heiter

View from Victoria Peak at sunset.

Hiking Hong Kong’s Victoria Peak

Whenever I need a quick escape from the urban canyons of Hong Kong, I head up to Victoria Peak, s...

China Steven K. Bailey

The rapids on the Nam Khan River were a little more challenging than I thought

Kayaking Adventure

Kayaking down the Nam Khan River near Luang Prabang in Laos...

China / Vietnam / Myanmar MaryLou Driedger

One of the many Naxi Guesthouses along the trail

Last Days of the Tiger Leaping Gorge?

Deep in Yunnan Province, at the foot of the Himalayas, the Yangtze River (here known as the Yello...

China / Afghanistan / Bhutan Adam Bray

The Home Song Stories promotion poster

Film: The Home Song Stories

The Home Song Stories, an entry to the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, is inspired by the true story o...

China / Singapore Diana Tan

Filipino maids in outside the Hong Kong Law Courts Building.

Maids Day Off in Hong Kong

Sunday is maid's day off in Hong Kong and they congregate in groups all over the city.

China MaryLou Driedger

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