When Heritage Goes Viral

The 3,000-Year-Old Poetry Collection That’s Still Alive

From millennia-old rituals to everyday idioms, the Classic of Poetry’s importance to Chinese literary culture cannot be overstated—and a recent archaeological find suggests there is still more to uncover

How China Turns Intangible Heritage Into Tangible Returns

While many of China’s intangible heritage traditions are struggling to survive, recent commercialization efforts have helped to transform some into sustainable business enterprises by integrating them with tourism and product sales

Roaming Famous Mountains, Wild and Unrestrained: How Ancient Scholars Sought Knowledge on the Road

China’s great philosophers, historians, and poets had one thing in common. They got up from their desk and hit the dusty trail.

Women, Seated: A Story of Female Relationships and Class Tension in Contemporary China

In her latest novel, Zhang Yueran offers a stark, nuanced portrait of three women from different socioeconomic backgrounds navigating power, desire, the men in their lives, and a fraught bond that begins to unravel in the wake of an abduction and a corruption arrest