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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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

Pema Tseden is the first director in China ever to film movies entirely in the Tibetan language. His latest film, The Search, won the Grand Jury Prize at Shanghai's recent International Film Festival. He says Tibet has always been depicted by outsiders who pander to their own imagination.

In Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, the region's famed cuisine is more popular than ever. But traditionalists worry it's drowning in spice.

A documentary film by Bill Callahan

Ms. Cao's first United States museum retrospective opens at MoMA PS1, with works that encapsulate China's societal shifts.

(by Covell Meyskens)

In the first installment of Living Rooms: Global Punk & DIY Venues, a series that looks at DIY clubs around ...

On an island in a pond behind the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet sits the Lukhang Temple, or;Temple to the Serpent Spirits; a secret meditation space created by the Dalai Lama in the 17th century.