It was already 8 pm on Jan 3 when Sodargye, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, returned to his hotel from the Asia World Expo in Hong Kong, where he had just finished two days of delivering dharma lectures to more than 11,000 people.
Wu Chen has spent years studying how cancer may be linked to genes.
The Cantonese from southern China, pioneers of the diaspora, were the first to take the flavors of home abroad. In every Chinatown in almost every Western city, the introduction to Chinese food has often been dim sum, or dianxin, food that touches the heart, served piping hot in little bamboo steamers.
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Han Haoyue belongs to a consortium of critics who review and score major film releases. When he gave a "Not recommend" to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he expected an army of loyalists throwing mud at him on his micro blog.
San Francisco's Chinatown may well be the largest outside of Asia, its success fueled in part by a particularly active community of Chinese diaspora.
In a country where good food is a prime motivator cutting through every social strata, the capital is where the Chinese Paradox reigns.
Son of a robber, a betrayed woman and a lonely boy. When he read stories of these characters in the first German issue of Pathlight magazine, Enrico Brandt, cultural affairs officer at the German embassy in Beijing, says he could feel their pain as they faced society's cruelty.
A Chinese illustrator's debut book, which was inspired by her experiences as an only child, has been named as one of the best children's books of 2015.
Books released in the Chinese mainland in December with the highest user ratings on Douban, a popular social networking website.
Surrounded by snow-capped mountains and glaciers, the Tibetan plateau is one of the world's finest destinations for climbers and explorers seeking challenging peaks and rarefied vistas.