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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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...
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...
Poems, essays and books written by working-class writers have garnered recognition in recent years — as well as increasing government attention.
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...
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...
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...
Der chinesische Essenslieferant Wang Jibing erhält für seine Gedichte den renommierten chinesischen Lu-Xun-Literaturpreis. Das ist ein echtes Novum. mehr...
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.
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.
Three poems by one of China’s most influential contemporary lyric poets The post ‘Wild Sunflower’ appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.
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...
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...
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...
The historical origins and development of tea culture and the tea ceremony
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Qing collector wrote down a merchant's account of a city the height of a knee. It is not the only such record.
“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...
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...
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...
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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