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Why Is the Chinese Luxury Market Getting So Much Media Attention?

Minh-Ha T. Pham | Posted 03.26.2013 | Style
Read More: Chinese Luxury Market, Consumerism, Fashion, Race, Global Economy, Chinese Culture, Chinese Economy, Global Fashion, Style News
Minh-Ha T. Pham

Today, established and new Chinese premium brands are becoming increasingly competitive forces in the global and domestic luxury market, giving international fashion brands a run for their money -- literally.

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Beijing In Three (Long) Days

Kris LoPresto | Posted 04.26.2013 | Travel
Read More: Travel Tips, Beijing, Adventure Travel, Chinese Culture, Peking Duck, Chinese Food, Travel, Slidefreestyle, China, Travel Inspiration, Hutongs, Outdoor Exercise, Travel News
Kris LoPresto

The hill you climb up was made from the earth that was displaced to make the moat that surrounds the Forbidden City.

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Happy Chinese New Year: Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Imam Abdullah Antepli | Posted 04.14.2013 | Religion
Read More: Islam, Chinese New Year, Chinese Culture, Chinese Festivals, Year of the Snake, China, Islam in China, Religion in Asia, Asian Religions, Racism, Religion News
Imam Abdullah Antepli

Modern celebrations of Chinese New Year provide many rich and helpful insights in terms of how Chinese culture is on the rise and becoming increasingly globally known and recognized.

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MENU: A Dumpling Party for Chinese New Year

Saveur | Posted 04.10.2013 | Taste
Read More: Dumplings, Chinese New Year, Chinese Food, Lunar New Year, Dumpling-Recipe, Chinese Culture, Taste News
Saveur

To celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year, gather friends in your kitchen and teach them how to wrap dumplings.

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PHOTOS: World's Largest Migration Begins

Posted 01.29.2013 | Travel
Read More: Chinese New Year, China Trains, Year of the Snake, Chinese Culture, Travel News, Chinese, Lunar New Year, China Travel, China, Travel News

The world's most chaotic season has begun in China. Considered by many to be the single largest human migration, China's rush home for Lunar New Ye...

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Chinese Find Luxury In Europe

AP | Posted 03.17.2013 | Travel
Read More: France, Luxury Travel, Europe, Chinese Culture, China, Europe Travel, France Travel, Travel News

BEIJING — A report says Europe is surging as a popular luxury destination for Chinese millionaires. The Hurun Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey 20...

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Father Gives $150 Million Wedding Gift To Daughter

Posted 01.03.2013 | Weddings
Read More: Fujian-Province, Wedding Gifts, Chinese Wedding Gift, Traditional Weddings, Chinese Culture, Chinese Weddings, Wedding Gift Ideas, Weddings, Wu Duanbiao, Dowry, 150 Million Dowry, Chinese Dowry, 150 Million Wedding Gift, Chinese Wedding Dowry, Weddings News

Most couples don't expect to get new cars as wedding gifts. But that's just the beginning of what one Chinese father gave his daughter and son-in-law ...

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Counting Candles

Jeanine Celeste Pang | Posted 10.25.2012 | Women
Read More: Hospitals, Birthday Cake, Grandparents, Birthdays, Chinese Culture, Family, Death, Chinese American, Longevity, 100th Birthday, Genes, Stroke, Grief, Women News
Jeanine Celeste Pang

"Amazing genes!" many would say when learning the ages of my 99-year-old grandfather and 94-year-old grandmother. "You'll live to be 100." "101," I would reply, as if entitled to some borrowed fortitude.

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How My Son's Chinese Wedding Changed My Life Forever

Sara Davidson | Posted 12.15.2012 | Weddings
Read More: Losing a Son Gaining a Daughter, Parenting, China, Chinese Culture, Weddings, Chinese Tradtional Wedding, Slideexpand, Weddings News
Sara Davidson

Last week I put on a traditional Chinese costume and sat beside my ex-husband in an obscure city in China, waiting for our son, Andrew, to come riding up on a horse with his bride in a sedan chair and ask us to accept her as our daughter

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How American Chinese Food Came To Be

Menuism | Posted 11.26.2012 | Taste
Read More: Chinese Restaurant, Menuism, Chinese Restaurants, Chinese Culture, David R. Chan, American Chinese, Chinese Food, Food History, Menuism Dining Blog, Taste News
Menuism

If you visit any of today's modern Chinese American communities, such as the San Gabriel Valley outside of Los Angeles, Flushing in New York, or numerous areas around San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and even Houston, you will find an interesting array of wonderful and delicious Chinese food.

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Doing Business in China: How to Win

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 09.29.2012 | Business
Read More: Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer, Chinese Insights, Colgate, What Chinese Want, Debeers, Business in China, Toyota, Chinese Motivations, Brand Tiering, Procter & Gamble, Chinese Consumers, The China Observer, Nike, Chinese Culture, Pricing in China, Individualism, China, Business News
Tom Doctoroff

The Chinese consumer is becoming modern and international, but not Western. In my book, What Chinese Want, I outline a few "golden rules" successful ...

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Chinese-style Peanut or Dan Dan Noodles

Laura Kumin | Posted 09.12.2012 | Taste
Read More: Recipes, Asian Markets, Cooking, Chinese Culture, Noodles, Easy Recipes, Asian Food, Chinese Food, Peanut Butter, Peanuts, Taste News
Laura Kumin

I don't know whether my version would be recognizable to a Sichuan food connoisseur, but that isn't an issue when my family is helping themselves to huge portions of these noodles. They are a great hot weather main course with toppings.

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American Mother-Daughter Duo Sketch 888 Taiwanese Faces

Jim Luce | Posted 09.02.2012 | World
Read More: Taiwan, Children, Brooklyn, Brenda Zlamany, Camera Lucida, Chinese, New York City, Shuang Wen Academy, Mandarin, Taiwan Aboriginal People, Manhattan, Chinese Language, Drawing Device, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Jim Luce, Chinese Culture, Oona Zlamany, MOCA Taipei, Mother-Daughter, Womens Issues, Chinatown, Fulbright Scholarship, Art, 888, Itinerant Portraitist, Video, World News
Jim Luce

I met the most amazing mother-daughter duo the other week. Americans, they were speaking at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York (TECO-NY).

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The Hunger Games Comes to Beijing

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 09.01.2012 | World
Read More: Chinese Economy, Censorship, Hunger Games Movie, Chinese Culture, The Hunger Games, China, Chinese Politics, World News
Julian Baird Gewirtz

The Chinese government needs to respond, at least partly, to what people want, even if that means allowing movies that deal with uncomfortable themes or don't fall into line with the values that the Party wants to promote.

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Does Conformity Imply Risk Aversion?

Michael R. Powers | Posted 08.21.2012 | Home
Read More: Risk Aversion, China, Conformity, Risk Taking, Chinese Culture, Home News
Michael R. Powers

It seems fairly evident that risk aversion implies conformity because a society whose members are risk averse would tend to be characterized by a narrow band of actions resulting in predictable outcomes; but is the converse also true?

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'Foreign Trash' and China's Soft Power

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 07.29.2012 | World
Read More: China Foreign Policy, Hu Jintao, Chinese Culture, China Nationalism, China Soft Power, World News
Julian Baird Gewirtz

China's soft power agenda has become a dangerous fault line. It will be an extraordinary challenge for China's new leadership to strengthen the country's cultural sphere while also maintaining the kind of global engagement that will make greater soft power useful.

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What Chinese Consumers Want

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 07.27.2012 | Business
Read More: Chinese Brands, Chinese Culture, Chinese Society, Chinese Consumerism, China Materialism, Apple China, China Business Culture, Business News
Tom Doctoroff

Understanding China's consumer culture is a good starting point for understanding the nation itself, as it races toward superpower status. Material similarities between Chinese and Americans mask fundamentally different emotional impulses.

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Happy Birthday, Ai Weiwei!

Posted 05.18.2012 | Arts
Read More: Slideadbigshot, Ai Weiwei Twitter, Video, Happy Birthday Ai Weiwei, Twitter, Chinese Culture, Internet Activism, Chinese Government, Art and Activism, Ai Weiwei, Arts News

Today is the (disputed) birthday of Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei. The successful sculptor, architect and open critic of the Chinese governme...

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Americanese: In Between the Gaps

Rui Dai | Posted 07.14.2012 | College
Read More: Immigrants, Immigration, Chinese Students, Chinese Culture, China, College News
Rui Dai

As more and more international students from all over the world come to the U.S. and become immersed in American culture, perhaps a term like Americanized Chinese or Americanese can also emerge to indicate an identity that is not completely Chinese or quite Chinese-American.

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Found Sound -- This Is China

Tamsin Smith | Posted 06.30.2012 | Home
Read More: Music, Poetry, Chinese Culture, China, Sound, Mark Degli Antoni, Home News
Tamsin Smith

Underneath the clatter of bicycle chains and the clomp of boots marching, I find the ping of coins tossed at a Buddhist temple, the jangle of tea cups, whistling, a burst of thunder, wind, laughter, rain upon stones, silence. Becoming attuned to sound changes the focus of approach.

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A Pritzker Prize With Chinese Characteristics

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 05.12.2012 | Arts
Read More: Hu Jintao, Chinese Culture, Architecture, Chinese Government, Wang Shu, China Economy, China, Pritzker Prize, Arts News
Julian Baird Gewirtz

Wang Shu's work stands for, and the Pritzker jury statement sides with, one set of possibilities for China's future -- bold, forward-thinking development that is tempered by awareness of China's remarkable and distinctive past.

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Linsanity: The Point God of Sports Memes

Chi Tung | Posted 04.10.2012 | Home
Read More: Linsanity, Blogosphere, Los Angeles Clippers, Yao Ming, Grantland, Internet Memes, Roger Ebert, Chinese Culture, Tebowmania, Asian Americans, Globalization, Deadspin, Jeremy Lin, Tim Tebow, New York Knicks, Home News
Chi Tung

For every one of us eager to claim Lin in our racial draft, there's Lin himself, shrugging off the portentous hype because he's too busy making love to pressure to tangle with Asian American identity politics.

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PHOTOS: Colorful Lantern Festival Celebrates End Of Chinese Lunar New Year

Posted 02.07.2012 | World
Read More: Photos, Photography, Chinese New Year, Chinese Culture, Exposure, Lunar New Year, China, World News

The Lantern Festival in China, also known as the Yuan-Xiao Festival, takes place on the 15th day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar. The...

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Modern China's Spiritual Crisis: Does it Exist?

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 03.23.2012 | World
Read More: Confucianism, Chinese Culture, Deng Xiaoping, Buddhism, China Materialism, China Modernism, China Spirituality, China Middle Class, World News
Tom Doctoroff

To the Chinese, materialism is not superficial. It is meaningful, tantamount to advancement within society and faith in the future. Run amok, however, it corrupts ambition and threatens the country's social fabric.

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PHOTOS: 8 Things You Must Do Before (And During) Chinese New Year

Grant Thatcher | Posted 03.21.2012 | Travel
Read More: Chinese New Year, Travel, New Year, Hong Kong, Chinese Culture, Chinese Food, Celebrations, Asia, Year of the Dragon, Local Food, Food, Slidepollajax, Food Travel, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Grant Thatcher

While Chinese New Year is always a special time, this particular cycle is the most special of all. Chinese New Year traditionally brings frenetic prayer and wishes for health, wealth, happiness and yet more wealth -- but 2012 has an added bonus.

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