Chinese Culture Blog

"American basketball coach Del Harris was mobbed by Chinese media on Sunday when he arrived in the country to begin preparing NBA standout Yao Ming and the national team for ... Read More

"Life here is very different from Shanghai," he said. "Shanghai is so much bigger; millions of people live there. Silver City is so much smaller, but it's nice, when I ... Read More

"Growing number of parents who've adopted children from China seek to give not just family, home and love -- but culture and language too." Read the article.

"We, as American-trained architects in China, are trying to fuse the two styles as much as possible - with a Western look on the outside but a Chinese feel to ... Read More

"How embarrassed we will feel if a foreign country lists the festival as its own cultural property. The Dragon Boat Festival has been celebrated in China for more than 2,500 ... Read More

"Shanghai opened first to the outside world and it stands as melting pot of cultures: East and West, New and Old," says Jiao Yang, speaking on behalf of the mayor ... Read More

"Can art be the soul of a new cultural revolution? That is the hope in Beijing, where the artists' colony at Song Zhuang in a cluster of villages outside the ... Read More

"Under Chairman Mao, literature was pure propaganda. But now, as China opens up to the west, literature is losing its political role, and critics say, its edge." Hear the audio ... Read More

This is a very strong statement issued by the Office for Taiwan Affairs under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC) about current cross-Straits relations. Read it ... Read More

"I felt more welcome there than in some European countries," said Mrs. Abraham. "I never sensed any anti-American feelings. "I didn't see any restrictions in Beijing or Jinan as to ... Read More

"Traditional Chinese furniture has become increasingly popular in Western countries in recent years," said Cao Yingchao, secretary-general with the China National Furniture Association. "In the past, most foreign buyers were ... Read More

"A Tennessee judge Wednesday terminated the parental rights of a Chinese immigrant couple who have been fighting for custody of their 5-year-old daughter for the past four years." Read the ... Read More

"You know, in the United States, if you see four or five men aged 30 to 35 going into an Internet cafe to play online games together, people might find ... Read More

"The Eastern German Bauhaus architects who designed Beijing's no. 798 electronics factory in 1950 may have never imagined their work would become a citadel for China's independent artists half a ... Read More

'In many respects, Kin represents not so much the Harley culture as the promise and the peril of trade with China. The promise is that China has become "potentially the ... Read More

"The Diamond Sutra, which bears the date 868 AD, was found in a walled-up cave in Dunhuang, north-west China, in 1907, along with other printed items." Read the article.

"The world's largest wireless market is China, not the U.S.A.," said Henry Wong, a senior partner in the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Crystal Ventures LP. "They are adding ... Read More

"In a transitional Chinese society, the new generation of youth have their views on marriage and ways of life, which bear characteristics of openness, freedom and tolerance, and the public ... Read More

"Lang Lang started his piano studies when he was three years old, and won his first medal two years later. At the age of 13, he won first prize at ... Read More

"People limit the definition of dance. Dance is everywhere. Sitting here is a gesture and writing is a movement."If anyone else said the same thing you would laugh and forget ... Read More