The Grand Canal was more than an ancient transport route. It built cities—Yangzhou's salt fortunes, Suzhou's scholar gardens, Jining's wharves, and the merchant networks of Shanxi ...
In Kashgar's old town, a bowl of salted milk tea costs about as much as a bus ticket and buys an entire afternoon. A look at ...
In most Western dining rooms a slurp is a small social crime. In a Chinese noodle shop it's closer to applause. Here's why the noise happens, ...
Two drinks — a humble carton of soy milk and a stubbornly old-fashioned coconut juice — are how a generation of Chinese people remember growing up. ...
Every autumn, China goes quietly mad for a palm-sized crustacean. From Yangcheng Lake docks to office gift boxes, hairy crab season is part feast, part ritual, ...
In the far north of Inner Mongolia, villages of log cabins, dark rye bread, and Orthodox Easter sit along the Chinese side of the Russian border. ...
A customer from Harbin and a shopkeeper in Guangzhou cannot understand each other out loud, so she tears a corner off the order pad and writes ...
The Chinese calendar is more than a lunar month system. It mixes moon cycles with sun-based solar terms, and it still decides when families eat, travel, ...
A smartphone notification about ancient solar terms is now a ritual for millions of Chinese city dwellers. Discover how a 2,000-year-old time system survives – and ...
A look at the Chinese family drama formula that's been running for two decades — and why Western audiences are now binge-watching it in one-minute chunks. ...