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Film Review: Unleashed

In a time when the average martial-arts movie is a shallow film with just enough plot to justify ...

China Will Raus

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Writers' festival offers insights into modern China

2009 International Literary Festival at the Beijing Bookworm.

China AFP/Karl Malakunas

Gulangyu Island

Gulangyu Island, China

Gulangyu is an oasis of tranquility just minutes away from buzzing Xiamen, one of China's origina...

China dave chou

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Micro Finance, Chinese Style

Women entrepreneurs in China get a helping hand...

China AFP/Allison Jackson

A great hill dominates Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport. The shifting light seems to give it a lift of its own and the Chinese call it Lion Rock.

Cathay Pacific Airways

* * * Title: Beyond Lion Rock . The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways. Author: Gavin Young. Publish...

China ThingsAsian Booklist

Images of Tingri and Gyantse

From the barren desert landscapes to majestic views of the Himalayas, it is breath-taking to trav...

China Doug Mendel

Still Waiting for the Sun on West Street

Waiting for the Sun in Yangshuo

It's One PM on a cloudy Tuesday, and I'm sitting in the Green Lotus Café on picturesque West str...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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

At the border crossing between Thailand and Cambodia

Somehow my wife has gotten the idea that I operate with some sort of mental check list.

China Jack VanNoord

Ebi Chili

Recipe: Ebi Chili

The classic recipe for this dish calls for a Japanese ingredient called ‘tobajan', a spicy miso...

China / Japan Celeste Heiter

View on Chong An Jiang from the ferry (Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Picturesque waterfront and old town of Chong An Jiang (prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

The picturesque waterfront and old town of Chong An Jiang can easily be reached from Kaili (Guizh...

China Tom Ber | www.tomber.de

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

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Beijing Shopping Spree

The author goes on a shopping spree in Beijing.

China Joe Lavin

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

Donghai Bridge

Donghai Bridge

China Tom

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The Iliad of China

The Thais believe that if you have read the novel Sahm Gok , then you can't be trusted. So your s...

China Kenneth Champeon

Macau: Ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral by night.

Macau on the Web

CIA World Factbook . Macau 's economy has remained one of the most open in the world since its re...

China ThingsAsian

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The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China

Title: The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China. Author: Colin Mackerras. Publisher: Camb...

China ThingsAsian Booklist

The Canada Post has printed almost 10 million stamps featuring the monkey king from a popular 16th century Chinese fairy tale to mark the Chinese Year of Monkey.

Chinese new year Canadian style

VANCOUVER, Canada, Jan 20, 2004 - New stamps, commemorative coins and even a cheque book designed...

China AFP/Michel Comte

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

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