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A survey of recent collections of translated premodern Chinese poetry shows a hunger for new ways of appreciating China, which could change American poetry.

Hua Hsu on the life of the Chinese poet, novelist, playwright, and actor H. T. Tsiang.

Despite decades of change and development, nomads still migrate to the Tibetan Plateau every summer, from where China Correspondent Stephen McDonell reports.

People on the edges of the country's vast seas of sand are being displaced by climate change.

A new documentary probes the life of the Chinese artist whose medium is explosions.

Yushu: Under a twinkling starlit sky, the glow of an electric light is the only sign that a Tibetan nomad’s way of life has changed in hundreds of years.

The Sino-Tibetan frontier is typically portrayed as a large, complex, and diverse transitional region between Tibetan and Chinese cultural realms. The concept of Tibetanization is often deployed to classify the ethnically ambiguous 'interstitial' populations of this area. This article critically examines the concept of Tibetanization through a study of the Mongols of Henan County, Qinghai Province, a population repeatedly described as Tibetanized. A survey of local folkways reveals that Henan Mongols do, indeed, share many cultural practices with neighboring Tibetans. However, an examination of the historical processes underlying these similarities fails to identify anything that could be described as Tibetanization. Based on this finding, I problematize some of Tibetanization's unexamined theoretical assumptions relating to concepts of ethnicity and assimilation. I conclude by asking what a critical reading of Tibetanization and the Sino-Tibetan frontier tells us about contemporary ethnopolitics in China...

Chanel shoes, McDonald’s french fries, iPhones, cognac, lacy lingerie, and machine guns are just a few of the consumer goods you can purchase for the dead in China. Made from bamboo-based joss paper, they’re meant to be burned. The torching of offerings

Miaomiao Lake Village is just one of the new communities built to accommodate the world's largest environmental migration project. But residents are struggling to adapt.

An exhibition features more than 35 prints by William Saunders, a British photographer who set up a studio in central Shanghai during the late Qing Dynasty.

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