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Great grains of China
2016-03-18 08:42
The diversity of staple grains and cereals in China is as broad as the country is large. Most food historians agree that the Yangtze River forms a rough division between north and south.
Cooking rice and noodles the Chinese way
2016-03-18 08:42
Rice
Accidental ballet star on the rise
2016-03-18 08:42
That Zhang Jinhao finds himself on stage, living out his love of ballet, is one of the little wonders of life.
Agriculture expert puts down roots in Kenya
2016-03-18 08:42
When Liu Gaoqiong was dispatched to Kenya's Egerton University to join a Chinese government education program in 1997, he admits he originally thought it would be a hardship post.
'Don't try to understand your fate'
2016-03-18 08:42
Mai Jia has become one of China's best-known authors among readers in the West thanks to his taut espionage thrillers.
Reaching boiling point
2016-03-18 08:42
It may technically be a county, but for many Wuyi is known as the city of hot springs.
Rising above Girls Day jokes
2016-03-18 08:42
March 8 as International Women's Day is facing a unique hurdle: Its Chinese acronym, sanba, is a homonym for a busybody, while the Chinese translation for women is a formal word that emphasizes the status of marriage.
If only the stone lions could talk
2016-03-18 08:42

They sit in front of imperial tombs, palaces, and not a few Chinese restaurants. Guardians of stone, roaring silently for centuries.
Family etiquette lives on at the dinner table
2016-03-11 08:11
Every meal in a Chinese family is a manifestation of the ordered hierarchy within. The first to lift a pair of chopsticks is usually the head of the family, or an important guest.
Helping tea to turn over a new leaf
2016-03-11 08:11
A man from Colorado showing Chinese how to drink tea is akin to a man from Chongqing showing people in the United States how to eat apple pie, but that does not seem to be putting off Martin Papp.
A sense of success
2016-03-11 08:11
Zhong Lin stopped wearing cosmetics and perfume in her 20s. She also swore off spicy food, which was tough for someone who grew up in Guizhou, a southern province where the chili is king.
How Moutai is made
2016-03-11 08:11
Fermentation

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