Doris, a 70-year-old Italian retiree, was born in Eritrea to an Italian family during the Italian colonial period. Hong, a 23-year-old Chinese girl, grew up in the economic boom of China. Having been ...

A Hong Kong sex worker tries modeling and falls for the artist who’s painting her.

Throughout Maoist China's turbulent history, the artist Mu Xin sacrificed everything to create his art. While illegally imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, he risked his life writing and ...

The Dragon King shows him the fabled Gold-Banded Cudgel, and jokes that Monkey is welcome to take it if he can carry it. Much to the Dragon King’s annoyance, Monkey discovers that the Cudgel obeys ...

In 2002 at the invitation of the German World Art Festival, director Zhang Yuan presented the opera with Zhang Huoding in the title role as Jiang Jie at the Cologne Grand Theater - the first major ...

Paul Bevan is a Sinologist, historian, and literary translator. He lectured in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford from 2020 to 2023 and was previously the Christensen ...

Chinese history images, old photos of China, articles about Chinese history.

Susan Wan Dolling’s work in translating and interpreting Tang Dynasty poetry offers a contemporary take on classical Chinese literature. Her series, My China in Tang Poetry, published by Earnshaw ...

Chris Ruffle is a British author and businessman who has spent over 30 years working in Asia. He studied Chinese at Oxford University and Japanese at Sheffield University before beginning his career ...

Gambling holds a prominent place in Chinese society, woven deeply into the cultural fabric of the nation. Its roots trace back to at least 1000 BC, reflecting a long-standing tradition that has ...

In the following years, Wong appeared in a wide range of genre films including Rock n’ Roll Cop, Hard Boiled, The Heroic Trio, Infernal Affairs, The Mission and The Medallion. He had also several ...

What inspired you to write “50 Useful Tips on China”? I spent a lot of time in China with normal people, who in turn I found to be misunderstood — if understood at all — by other Westerners. Can you ...