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Chinese Lunar Animal Calligraphy - Tiger

To see the proper stroke order of Tiger, click the Start button. Click here to download a practic...

China Kong Lee

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

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

Fragrant Harbour

Title: Fragrant Harbour. Author: John Lanchester. Publisher: Faber & Faber (2002). ISBN: 05712146...

China ThingsAsian Booklist

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

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

China / Iran Doreen Cheong

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

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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

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

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

Chinese Lunar Animal - Dragon

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

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

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

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

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

Chinese Lunar Animal - Monkey

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

China Tricia Morrissey

Las Vegas of the Orient?

The gray mist clung to the city so thickly that the godess herself seemed to float above the harb...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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

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

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Shark's Fin Soup

Few Chinese wedding banquets are complete without shark's fin soup -- a Chinese delicacy which, t...

China AFP/Roberto Coloma

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