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Film Review: The Road Home

Tradition. It is the glue that holds families, and even entire cultures together. It is the tie t...

China Celeste Heiter
Hong Kong's Main Library

Asian Libraries - Hong Kong

Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong The University has been designated a depository for pub...

China Christina Gosnell
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What happened to Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport?

Closed since 1998, Kai Tak airport sits right in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour and is estimated to...

China AFP/Adrian Addison
Two salesmen from Pakistan outside Chung King Mansion in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's United Nations

Chung King Mansion in the heart of Hong Kong is a mini United Nations.

China MaryLou Driedger

Chinese Lunar Animal - Dragon

Explosion and excitement follow the Dragon wherever she goes. With a hasty temper and shrewd conf...

China Tricia Morrissey

Celebrating Chinese New Year - A New Year's Legend

One New Year's eve, local bandits played a trick on a nearby village. Using bamboo and scraps of ...

China Tricia Morrissey
Pavilion of Women

Film Review: Pavilion of Women

Based upon the World War II era novel by Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women tells the story of a Ch...

China Celeste Heiter
A young man and his girlfriend hover impatiently as an elderly man scribbles on a sheet of paper -- awaiting not a fortune, but a new name, at a licensed shop located near a Beijing Buddhist temple.<b

Chinese believers change their names to bring good luck

The atmosphere inside the Chinese fortune-teller's shop was tense. A young man and his two female...

China AFP/Cindy Sui
Hong Kong's trams are 100 years old.

Hong Kong's Trams Celebrate 100th

Amid the frenetic pace and futuristic architecture of Hong Kong's financial district, the trams s...

China AFP/Isabella Steger
The Inner Shrine of a Chinese Temple in Ban Chang, Thailand.

Psychedelia in Stone: Chinese Temple Architecture

For thousands of years, industrious and ambitious Chinese have left China in search of wealth in ...

China / Thailand Kenneth Champeon
Huangshan (Yellow Mountains), Anhui Province, China.

Mountain Drinking Song -- Li Bai

To drown the old sorrows, We drank a hundred jugs of wine There in the beautiful night. We couldn...

China Dawn Stanton

The Silk Road

IT is long, dry, sandy, and to be a little more dramatic, lifeless. That is probably the best des...

China / Iran Doreen Cheong

Will Tourism Spoil China's Kingdom of Women?

In a remote section of the Himalayas straddling Yunnan and Sichuan provinces lies Lugu Lake, a pl...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

Chinese Lunar Animal - Monkey

Lively and funny, the clever Monkey bursts with impossible ideas. She is delighted by her own gen...

China Tricia Morrissey

Celebrating Chinese New Year - Lantern Festival

Chinese New Year ends with the Lantern Festival, when bright paper lanterns help the full moon li...

China Tricia Morrissey
Lijiang, China.

A River Runs Through It

A UNESCO listed cultural heritage, Lijiang is thankfully not yet the domain of tourists and souve...

China Susan Storm
Taking a break - windsurfers on the beach, Cheung Chau island, Hong Kong.

Surf's up as Hong Kong catches the wave

The laid-back beach lifestyle seems light years from bustling Hong Kong but just a few miles from...

China AFP/John Saeki

Other Lives...Other Worlds at Cinequest 2005

Among a total of 84 features and seven short series from more than 30 countries, the panoply of A...

China Celeste Heiter

Chinese Lunar Animal - Horse

The lively Horse follows no rules. She bolts with grace and flies on four legs. She is sorely dis...

China Tricia Morrissey

Hong Kong's Museum of Coastal Defense

I find it a sad fact that so many Asian cities have become synonymous with military cataclysms. T...

China Steven K. Bailey

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