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  • Reflections on the Virtues of Tea in Classical Chinese Culture
  • Ming dynasty work shows how Chinese understood the world in the 1600s
  • In a Faltering Chinese Economy, Working-Class Stories Strike a Chord

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

Reflections on the Virtues of Tea in Classical Chinese Culture

Serving tea to guests has been one of China’s traditional forms of etiquette since ancient times, and it became especially widespread during the Song dynasty. More than a simple re...

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scmp.com /2 weeks ago

Ming dynasty work shows how Chinese understood the world in the 1600s

Long before the digital age, a Ming dynasty scholar made it his mission to map human knowledge from a Chinese perspective. The result was an encyclopaedia spanning 127 volumes know...

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nytimes.com /3 weeks ago

In a Faltering Chinese Economy, Working-Class Stories Strike a Chord

Poems, essays and books written by working-class writers have garnered recognition in recent years — as well as increasing government attention.

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scmp.com /1 month ago

China ‘delivery rider poet’ known for writing verses on scrap paper wins elite literature prize

After winning China’s prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize, grass roots delivery rider and poet Wang Jibing expressed his intention to continue delivering food, describing himself as...

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

The Guardian view on Chinese workers picking up the pen: poetry in motion | Editorial

A food delivery rider has won the country’s highest literary award. It is part of a growing trend for writing by labourersThe hundreds of millions who have built modern China from...

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visiontimes.com /1 week ago

Autumn in Verse: How Eastern and Western Poets Found Inspiration in the Changing Season

From Li Bai’s moonlit Dongting Lake to Shelley’s wild west wind, poets across centuries and continents have looked to autumn for reflections on beauty, hardship, mortality, and ren...

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taz.de /1 month ago

Literaturpreis für Graswurzel-Lyrik: Die Poesie des Lieferfahrers

Der chinesische Essenslieferant Wang Jibing erhält für seine Gedichte den renommierten chinesischen Lu-Xun-Literaturpreis. Das ist ein echtes Novum. mehr...

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visiontimes.com /3 weeks ago

Can You Read These? The Great Wisdom in Characters Descended From Shang Oracle Bone Script

Three fish stacked together do not mean a school of fish, and three hearts do not mean a fickle lover. Here are 25 of them, with their sounds and their senses.

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visiontimes.com /3 weeks ago

What ‘Drink’ Is Being Sold in Yao Wenhan’s ‘Selling Drinks’? A Lesson in Chinese Tea Culture

Ten figures crowd a street stall in a Qing court painter’s work. They are holding a tea contest, and the details of their cups and sleeves carry the tastes of an age.

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tricycle.org /1 month ago

‘Wild Sunflower’

Three poems by one of China’s most influential contemporary lyric poets The post ‘Wild Sunflower’ appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

Zhong Lihe: Father of Taiwanese Nativist Literature Who Wrote About 1945s Beijing

When Meinong, an agricultural settlement in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan is mentioned, many tourists immediately think of it as the best-preserved Hakka cultural settlement in Taiw...

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scmp.com /1 week ago

Chinese script evolved like a living organism driven by natural selection: study

Modern simplified Chinese characters form a tightly connected network from just 514 basic components that evolved through a process similar to natural selection, according to resea...

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teatimemagazine.com /1 month ago

Chinoiserie

Text and Select Photography by Sharon McDonnell   The Allure of the Exotic East   Venetian explorer Marco Polo sparked a fascination with China with his sensational account of his...

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

Savor Tea’s Aroma Through Its Vessel; Understand the Tea Ceremony With the Heart

The historical origins and development of tea culture and the tea ceremony

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

Where Is Marriage Headed? Timeless Lessons From The Tale of Li Wa

Today, we live in an age of material abundance but emotional fragility. Modern marriages and romantic relationships often seem to offer little sense of security. Negotiations over...

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visiontimes.com /4 weeks ago

Three Objects Carry the Moral Argument of ‘Journey to the West’

In the last chapter of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong, the monkey who fought heaven to a standstill, has just been declared a Buddha. He asks his master for one favor: recite the...

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kyrgyzstannews.net /1 month ago

Learning Chinese calligraphy at Confucius Institute in Kazakhstan

What does it take to master Chinese calligraphy? A media professional in Kazakhstan finds out as he tries his hand at this intangible cultural heritage, where patience, control and...

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e.vnexpress.net /4 weeks ago

Food delivery rider wins one of China's top literary prizes with poems written between orders

A food delivery rider in eastern China has won one of the country's highest literary honors for a poetry collection about his fellow couriers, and says he has no plans to leave the...

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scmp.com /1 month ago

Chinese man discovers family dining table is ancestor’s Qing dynasty academic record

A man in eastern China was stunned to discover that his family’s battered dining table was in fact a Qing dynasty (1644–1912) honour board commemorating an ancestor’s success in th...

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visiontimes.com /1 week ago

The Lands of Little People That Really Did Appear on Earth

A Qing collector wrote down a merchant's account of a city the height of a knee. It is not the only such record.

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scmp.com /4 weeks ago

2,300-year-old wine found near Great Wall ruin reveals ancient brewing secrets

“He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man,” former Chinese leader Mao Zedong wrote in a poem while passing through the Liupan Mountains in Guyuan, Gansu, during th...

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dailygood.org /1 month ago

The Delivery Rider Who Wrote 6,000 Poems

He squeezes poems from the same hours as his deliveries. Wang Jibing rides through the streets of Kunshan, China with food orders strapped to his back and verses forming in his min...

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nybooks.com /2 weeks ago

Life in the Fortress

I first read Fortress Besieged as a teenager, when the novel, originally published in 1947 and out of print for decades, became a bestseller in China after it was adapted into a TV...

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scmp.com /1 week ago

23,000 bronzes, 14 years, 60 volumes: how China is mapping lost heritage held abroad

In the quiet of a Peking University research room, shelves groan under the weight of 60 thick volumes. Stacked, they stand taller than an average human. Inside their pages lie the...

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