Chinese Culture Blog

It is a good news if you are looking for Chinese TV programs that DISH Network now has the Great Wall TV Package featuring 17 Chinese channels, including CCTV-9, CCTV-Spanish/French, ... Read More

"The stems are from a wild plant in China called yun chao. Transforming the material into dainty decorative items is a new form of art in that country," said Lim ... Read More

The Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th of the 8th lunar month (September 28, 2004). It's also known as the Mid-autumn Festival. Read the full article.

"Most Chinese born before the 1980s have deep impressions of dubbed movie classics such as "Jane Eyre", "Waterloo Bridge" and others. They remember it as natural that the exotic heroes ... Read More

"About 48 percent of the surveyed Chinese managers with a bachelor degree quit their jobs during the six-year research period, saying that the biggest problem was their foreign bosses don't ... Read More

"Modern cartoons are an exotic cultural form in China, where they are gaining increasing popularity throughout the broad and heated world of youth culture and entertainment. However, traditional Chinese cartoons ... Read More

"China's top shopping centres are witnessing a booming business development period, and to make themselves the fittest in the jungle of rivals, they are competing furiously with each other, with ... Read More

"Almost 800 kilometres southwest of Beijing, and 20 kilometres west of Jiexiu City, Mianshan is reminisce as a holy place for both Buddhism and Taoism. Rebuilt religious buildings rest harmoniously ... Read More

"China Sunday published Jiang Zemin's letter resigning from his position as chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The Fourth Plenum of the ... Read More

"Everything's changing, including people's behavior, customs and beliefs," said Zhang Kan, president of the Chinese Psychological Society. "Some people want to keep the traditions, but it is not possible. Maybe ... Read More

"Work to rehabilitate the beauty of Yuanmingyuan, China's great imperial garden, has achieved initial success as the western part of the garden has been excavated from the dust of ages." ... Read More

"A heavyweight report released on July 28 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) caused wide concern. The report pointed out that in the coming eight to ten years, ... Read More

"No other century in Chinese history saw such an avalanche of changes and brought such profound breakthroughs to its stagnant apparel tradition as has the past 100 years," said executive ... Read More

President Hu Jintao said Wednesday that history proves following blindly western political systems would lead China to a dead end, and China's current people's congress system has strong vitality and ... Read More

"Zhang's Mandarin-language "Hero," a saga of ancient China starring Jet Li, topped the box-office for two straight weekends after its belated U.S. debut in late August. Close behind it will ... Read More

'Half Pinyin and half English road signs are intended to make sense to foreigners whether it is a street, road or bridge, but often things get lost in translation causing ... Read More

The triennial China Arts Festival, the country's top arts and culture gala, was unveiled in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province on Sept. 10, 2004. There will be more than ... Read More

"The major purpose of the sex education for teenagers is to let them have a correct and comprehensive understanding in sex, which will help them properly control their sexual behaviors," ... Read More

"China is going through a transitional period, and a lot of problems arise, such as corruption and injustices. Some people argue that we are losing some of our best traditions ... Read More

It does not make a lot of sense to link the 'silly' martial arts movie, Hero, with the history, but there are a lot of discussions about it. Here is ... Read More

"China had long since forgotten about lute-like instruments from the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), but Yuen is bringing the old music back to life by making replicas of the instruments ... Read More

"A new study reveals that cultural factors influence how dyslexia manifests itself by finding that the disorder affects the brains of Chinese and English speakers differently." Read the story.

"Once you have that kind of experience in living in a different culture, it changes your perspective on how things are here." Read the story.