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Christmas in North China

Atmosphere of fear at Christmas in north China...

China AFP/Robert Saiget

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A Lady on a Tramp

A review of Victorian Isabella Bird's travels through the Far East.

China / Malaysia / Singapore Kenneth Champeon

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Buddhism in a Nutshell

* * * * * Review of Laurence-Khantipalo Mills' Buddhism Explained , Silkworm Books, 1999. * * * *...

China Kenneth Champeon

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Of Destinations and Dog Biscuits: An Interview with Journalist Jacquelin Sonderling

Does it ever seem as if some people squeeze more life into a lifetime than others? That their day...

China Celeste Heiter

Artistic village square in Langde (Miao village, prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Scenic Langde Miao village (prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Scenic Langde Miao village (prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province) is quite touristic, but q...

China Tom Ber • www.tomber.de

Logistics in the Longji rice terraces...

Longji rice terraces

Longji rices terraces are close to Longsheng town in Guangxi, near Guilinin Guangxi, not to far a...

China tomber.de

Bright Lights, Big Congee

Review of Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby.

China Kenneth Champeon

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The Arrangement: Feng Shui for Harmony and Good Fortune

Even before Marco Polo returned from his travels with silk, spaghetti and fireworks, the secrets ...

China Celeste Heiter

Dragons and Tigers

Title: Dragons and Tigers. A Geography of South, East and Southeast Asia. Author: Barbara A. Weig...

China / Vietnam / Myanmar ThingsAsian Booklist

Flower Drum Song

Film Review: Flower Drum Song

San Francisco's Chinatown is the setting for this Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway classic, in wh...

China Celeste Heiter

Donghai Bridge

Donghai Bridge

China Tom

Kowloon to Beijing by Train

The driving click-clack of wheel-on-rail becomes a dull thrum at 120 kilometers per hour. China's...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

Replicas of antique statues, at an antique market in Beijing.

The Trade in Chinese Relics

BEIJING, April 25, 2004 - When a grieving family placed a fist-sized clay lion in a tomb in centr...

China AFP/Peter Harmsen

Bamboo - A Valuable Resource for Asians

The bamboo plants that have become an important part of the Asian culture and tradition over the ...

China / Philippines Ee Lin Wan

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Their feet no longer bound, women in China face new challenges

Linda Kong, a tall and curvaceous 29-year-old is not only unmarried but boyfriend-less. In a year...

China AFP/Cindy Sui

Book Review: The Bewitching Braid

Henrique de Senna Fernandes' The Bewitching Braid (Hong Kong University Press, 2004)begins as a s...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

The Hekim Family

The Marvelous Hekim Family

It's just after five PM on the second day of Ramadan, and I'm in the dining room of the Hekim fam...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

How to photograph an eclipse: don't look at it directly...

Eclipsed in Hong Kong

Partial (75%) solar eclipse in Hong Kong 8:15am, July 22. Be there...

China Albert Wen

The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, still the 'finest hotel east of Suez'.

At 75, Hong Kong's Peninsula Hotel is still going strong

HONG KONG, Dec 9, 2003 - A survivor of colonial Asia now surrounded by the buzz of Asian modernit...

China AFP/Jacques Boyer

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The Chinese Consider Ginseng A Cure For All Ailments

First mentioned by the Emperor Sen Nug 5,000 years ago, ginseng has long been thought by the Chin...

China Habeeb Salloum

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