"Over the last five years, President Bush has done an excellent job in managing relations with China - it's one of his very few successes in foreign policy - but ... Read More

The Red Dragonfly Chinese Shoes Museum located in Yongjia county, Wenzhou city in East China's Zhejiang province has recently opened to public. Read the story.

Yin says: "The party is evolving in line with the changes going on in China. It's not interested any more in making the whole world believe in communism. Today, the ... Read More

"More so is China, a wok in another sense, in which all ingredients - foreign and indigenous, conqueror and conquered - mix and melt constantly, and which has been in ... Read More

"Often I think of it as more of an Asian notion, although the concept of it is very universal across many cultures. The way I understood it, growing up is ... Read More

"The Chinese imperial examination system was a method to evaluate ability and select officials in dynastic China on the basis of merit rather than social position or political connections. The ... Read More

"The Confucius Institute, China's newest cultural export, will make its first Australian home in Perth. A joint venture between the University of Western Australia and the Chinese Government, the institute ... Read More

The Academy for Educational Development (AED) seeks proposals from U.S. institutions of higher education to develop and implement a national Chinese flagship program including an innovative, articulated K-16 program in ... Read More

"The emergence of Liao pottery, which is often characterized by sancai - the use of green, amber, and cream glazes that the Khitan adopted from the earlier Tang style - ... Read More

"Booms of firecrackers during the Spring Festival mark the passing of the old year, or "guonian" as the Chinese call it. Traditionally, firecrackers are believed to be able to drive ... Read More

"Just one month after Chen Yifei, China's prominent artist-entrepreneur died, his masterpiece 'Sunny Days' was auctioned off for the stunning price of 4.4 million yuan." Read the story.

"China's economy is growing so quickly and becoming so influential in the world economy that people can't afford to ignore it." Read the story.

"Beijing's position is that Taiwan can gain much more autonomy in the future. For a long time, Beijing has been proposing that the island maintain its government and key institutions. ... Read More

"Last year, China had 36 large-scale robberies of museums, tombs and temples resulting in the loss of 223 antiquities, according to the State Cultural Relics Bureau. The rate of successful ... Read More

"It's really an American creation, manufactured in 1918 in California -- filled with a Bible message and handed out to the poor. China land never even saw the treat until ... Read More

"China is technically ready for currency reform but wants to be allowed to choose for itself when to loosen the peg between the yuan and the US dollar." Read the ... Read More

"The government's attitude towards these traditions would greatly affect their fate. Politics was the given priority during the early years of the New China. While the economy seems to be ... Read More

"Our culture and our bloodlines all come from the same origin," said Soong. "We descendants of the Yan and Yellow Emperors cannot forget our roots. Brothers on both sides of ... Read More

"Gift-giving is an important aspect of Chinese culture. When traveling, they tend to bring back gifts representative of the countries they have visited, often branded products otherwise inaccessible in China." ... Read More

"The city's ambitions do not stop at being an international economic hub. Shanghai is also aiming to become a cultural center of global importance." Read the story.

"China has grown around 9 percent a year for more than 25 years, the fastest growth rate for a major economy in recorded history. In that same period it has ... Read More

"For reasons of economics, culture and security we should have much better facility with Chinese languages and dialects." Read the story.

"Fifteen years ago, Pudong, in east Shanghai, was undeveloped countryside. Today it is Shanghai's financial district, eight times the size of London's new financial district, Canary Wharf, in fact only ... Read More