Labubu dolls are displayed inside a Pop Mart store in Shanghai on July 19, 2025. Photo: VCG. Editor's Note: China's new era ...

As I described earlier, what the Chinese people focused on for the past century were the differences between two roads to progress. One required them to reject their past and totally accept new ...

And eventually, she adds, “dragons became symbolic and a part of the Chinese culture.” So, as we step into 2025’s Year of the Wood Snake, let’s keep the spirit of the dragon alive.

Chinese culture was proving oddly malleable. The thing about Chinese people is that they are always telling you what the thing about Chinese people is.

Chinese culture often takes Western influences and makes them its own. Walk into KFC, for example, you will find an egg tart, rice porridge, and a menu almost unrecognizable to someone in the States.

The importance of food in understanding human culture lies precisely in its infinite variability--variability that is not essential for species survival. For survival needs, people everywhere could ...

Moreover, in China’s case, aggressors that invaded China from abroad, the Manchus and the Mongols notably, actually ended up adopting Chinese culture and becoming Sinicized themselves.

China's crackdown on celebrity culture and its moves to rein in giant internet firms are a sign of "profound" political changes under way in the country, a prominent blogger said in a post widely ...

All the books and paintings were of China, its culture and its people. Kleinman himself drops into Chinese effortlessly, with an accent my mother would raise her eyebrows at, and say ...