In celebration of the coming Chinese New Year, the Palace Museum, in collaboration with a Chinese phone maker, is planning to release 999 mobile phone units priced at RMB19,999. The phone will reportedly be available by the end of January 2017. The design of the phone is drawn from the Palace Museum’s collection, incorporating elements […]
China’s Twenty-Four Solar Terms has been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, according to the UN committee. China’s “24 solar terms” is a knowledge system and social practice formed through observation of the sun’s annual motion, and an understanding of a whole year’s changes of season, climate and phenology. […]
Since the beginning of 2017, Sinan Mansions (思南公館) has become an open-air museum featuring 51 historical buildings dating back from the early 1900s. Visitors can scan QR codes printed on building facades to read about the history of each building. They can also listen to audio clips recorded by volunteers. Unlike a regular museum, the […]
You know you’re Tsinoy when you have a piano in your living room and had piano lessons whether you wanted to or not. We had a high-quality piano when I was growing up. My mom bought it at a hugely discounted price from a friend who was migrating to the US. With the piano came […]
This year, starting on Saturday Jan. 28, the Rooster reigns, his early morning cock-a-doodle-doo proclaiming the start of a new day. The 10th animal in the Chinese Zodiac will struct through our lives for the next 12 months. The Rooster figures prominently in many cultures, as these four stories show. How the rooster got his […]