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Street cleaners in Hong Kong have unique headgear.

Hong Kong's Street Sweepers

The city of Hong Kong employs nearly 4000 street sweepers a day. They are a unique part of the Ho...

China MaryLou Driedger

Chinese Lunar Animals - Paper Cut Art

Chinese noblewomen began creating paper cut art during the Han dynasty (206 B.C. - 221 A.D.). To ...

China Tricia Morrissey

Celebrating Chinese New Year - Chinese Calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Calligraphers have to ...

China Tricia Morrissey

All's well that ends well

Once Burned, Twice Sly

Some thing's not adding up here.

China / Thailand Jack VanNoord

Huaihai Park

An Inside Guide to Shanghai’s Must-Do Activities

Chat with any group of Shanghai experts, and you'll likely hear several different versions of a p...

China Charlotte Walker

The Peking Opera: An Actor Prepares

The Traditional Peking Opera: An Actor Prepares

The setting for the traditional Peking Opera is simple and bare. B...

China Cheryl McGinniss

Book / Film Review: Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman

Within the context of Iron and Silk , to say that the pen is mightier than the sword might spark ...

China Celeste Heiter

The newlywed's wedding bed, in the home of the groom.

Water Dai Wedding in Xishuangbana

As is the Dai custom, a party has been sent out from the groom's village, consisting of the groom...

China / Vietnam / Myanmar Joshua Samuel Brown

Fish sellers in a Hong Kong wet market

Visiting a Hong Kong wet market is almost like visiting an art gallery.

China MaryLou Driedger

Bill Mee and Krystal Folino in their Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Lychee Grove.

For the Love of Lychees: An Interview with Lychee Growers Bill Mee and Krystal Folino

When early humans first discovered the perfumed pleasures of the lychee fruit more than 4000 year...

China Celeste Heiter

Dancing with Naxi ladies in Yunnan province.

Dancing in Shangri-La

Many different cultural groups live in Shangri-La, site of James Hilton's novel Shangri-La. One e...

China MaryLou Driedger

'The Road Home' Dim Sum Recipes & Photos

Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts 1 can water chestnuts (about 2 dozen) 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup bro...

China Celeste Heiter

Downtown Chengdu.

Chengdu: Good Food and Rich History

Chengdu: The capital of Sichuan. Although I have resisted taking a trip to this little-known plac...

China Heng Wah

Hong Kong's scenic Kau Sai Chau golf course

Golfing on Hong Kong's Only Public Course

Hong Kong only has one public golf course. You have to travel by ferry boat to an island to get t...

China MaryLou Driedger

Little Buddha

Film Review: Little Buddha

In this film adaptation of a true story, a Tibetan Buddhist lama's search for the reincarnation o...

China / Bhutan Celeste Heiter

The Stone Marker at the Summit

Verboten Mountain

...It’s a cruel thing to be told after enduring six hours on three busses and one Jackie Chan v...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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A Story of Us All: Ha Jin's Waiting

Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction, Ha Jin's Waiting is as universal, and decepti...

China Kenneth Champeon

Zhou de Li is a boat tracker in the Bamboo Gorge

Bamboo Gorge Boat Trackers

The boat trackers in the Bamboo Gorge are experts who sing while they work.

China MaryLou Driedger

Film Review: Raise the Red Lantern

Rivalry, treachery and conspiracy abound when concubine number four joins the palatial household ...

China Celeste Heiter

Celebrating Chinese New Year - Firecrackers

To scare away the terrible Nian, the daring villagers lit hissing, popping firecrackers. Now the ...

China / Taiwan Tricia Morrissey

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