By BECKY DAVIS APRIL 6, 2015 9:37 AM April 6, 2015 9:37 am
Barnaby Yeh of the Sino-Judaic Institute leads morning prayers for Jewish descendants in Kaifeng.Credit Becky Davis/The New York Times
Over the remains of the Chinese-style Passover banquet – soups with bamboo and huge chunks of fresh tofu, steamed fish and platters of crisp greens in mustard sauce – Li Pengling, 16, Continue reading
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21 March 2015 — Bertrand Russell once remarked that he didn’t write about Confucius because he found the Chinese sage “boring.” If Lord Russell had lived long enough to have read this book, Continue reading
5:43 am HKT Mar 2, 2015
Students pictured in Shanghai. AP
Chinese values are shifting.
A University of California at Los Angeles study assessed Chinese values by analyzing the words used in more than 270,000 Chinese-language books and found that China’s Continue reading
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A screenshot shows the performance of “I Give My Heart to You” during this year’s China Central Television Spring Festival gala. Continue reading
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Actor and director Jiang Wen is currently in Germany at the Berlinale showing his new film Gone With the Bullets, a sequel to the blockbuster Let the Bullets Fly. The film’s December Continue reading
By JULIA LOVELL FEB. 6, 2015
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In October 2012, Mo Yan became the first citizen of mainland China Continue reading
Posted on 1 February 2015 by Nicholas Jose
Creative fiction has a venerable history in the People’s Republic of China. Many would argue that the nation’s very foundations lie in its creative fictions. Continue reading
by JEN FITZGERALD on DECEMBER 14, 2014
When Xu Lizhi committed suicide on September 30, 2014, he left a substantial body of work for his brief 24 years.
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