Think of Qingming Festival as a graveyard party day all over the country, when most Chinese take a mini road trip to visit deceased loved ones and pay their respects.
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Brilliant Tang Dynasty Strategist or Wicked Witch of the East?
Some of us come from Fragrant Blue or Strong Fruit. Maybe you’ve traveled to Meaningful Big Advantage and can’t wait to visit Ink West Brother. Not sure where you’re from?…
In the first interview of our China Insiders business series, Stewart Lee Beck spoke with Douglas Chew, Senior Vice President Fashion & Home Creative with Li & Fung Asia about…
The Zi Crew: Philosophers who blew everyone's mind "Pure" philosophers weren't the only thought leaders in pre-Imperial Chinese history. The legendary general Sunzi (孙子, Sūnzǐ, 544-496BC), aka Sun Tzu, created...
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The character biáng requires 62 total strokes to write and contains a 馬 horse, 月 moon,刂 knife and 心 heart plus other radicals. Biáng doesn’t exist in Modern Standard Mandarin which…
The Zi Crew: Philosophers who blew everyone’s mind The man we call “Laozi” (老子, Lǎozǐ), known in the Western world as Lao-Tzu or Lao-Tse, didn’t feel the urge to document…
CS wishes you all a Happy Valentine’s Day! 情人节快乐! Qíng rén jié kuài lè! Here are two Chinese phrases for your next romantic interlude. Why not give them a go?
Why do things the hard way if you don’t need to? Learning a language is not a “one size fits all” endeavor.
China’s Zi Crew personified the Hundred Schools of Thought (诸子百家, zhūzǐ bǎijiā) era of fertile intellectual expansion. For more than three centuries, as the celebrated Zhou Dynasty and its Spring…
