Asian Society & History

“He was only trying to help” – Face Issues in China

Note: This article is a rant. And I wrote it in 2012. It was published in another website which, recently, went offline forever. Since the thoughts I shared are still (very) relevant to China and its society, we decided to publish it on SDC. Today I did something I’m not proud of. Fast backward to …

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Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Myths and Traditions

This article was written by TutorMandarin, an online tutoring service that helps students to learn Mandarin, through its Chinese learning app and PC Software. Mid-Autumn Festival and Family Reunions There are three major Chinese Holidays in Chinese culture: Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival. Today, we’ll talk about Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节, Zhōngqiū …

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Online payments in China

Online payments in China: Spreading without limits

Apps and e-commerce platforms directly connected to your bank account Online commerce in China is rapidly growing because consumers are more inclined to make purchases online through various platforms and devices like computers, tablets and smartphones. Online payment operations in China have surpassed 2.42 billions of Chinese Yuan (about 370 millions of American Dollars) in …

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The Importance of Food in Chinese Traditional Medicine

Today’s article was written by Fátima Denis, an Argentine nutritionist and founder of the webpage Tipsnutritivos.com (Spanish) where she gives her advice on how to achieve a healthy lifestyle. The origin of traditional Chinese medicine It is estimated that Asian medicine started in China more than 5000 years ago. It is currently practiced around the …

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Chinglish: 30 photos of amusing grammatical blunders on banners and signs

星OXXO by Ken Lee If you’ve been to China, you’ve probably taken a few photos of the hilarious Chinese signs and banners translated into English. In this article, we want to offer you a slideshow of blunders that seemed the most amusing to us. Some photos are ours while some have been chosen from the …

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The Meaning of Colors in China

In both tradition and everyday life in China, each color has specific sensations and messages associated with it, as happens in every culture; at times there are rather “literal” and universal meanings, other times they’re exclusive to the charming and “strange” (for us) Chinese culture. Three colors are particularly interesting: red, which could be considered …

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The Chinese medicine bible: Huang Di Neijing

Introduction One of the most important aspects that we can learn about the endless Chinese culture has to do with a fundamental part of everyone’s life: taking care of one’s health. The way that Asian populations, and especially the Chinese, have developed their approach to everything connected to the body’s well-being and curing sickness is …

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Dog meat in China and the Yulin festival

Disclaimer: This article is an opinion article based on contrasting information and personal experience. The comments section is open to discussion. However, just like with any article on SDC, any comments considered to be clearly offensive or insulting will be deleted. Lately, we received a wave of insulting comments against Chinese people, and strangely on …

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Chinese etiquette

Chinese etiquette – The complete guide

Boasting a continuous history of thousands of years, China has collected an extensive catalogue of rules – explicit and implicit – that govern social habits: the so-called Chinese etiquette (o 礼节). In the past, almost every aspect of Chinese life was regulated by what Master Confucius called 礼 (“li”, rites); failure to observe one of …

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I Ching: The Art of Infallible Divination

Introduction The book I Ching, also called “Zhouyi” or “the book of changes” is irrefutably and unanimously considered as one of the deepest and determining roots of the Chinese culture. The origins of the concepts that it contains are lost in the depths of time to the point of founding itself with mythological figures who, …

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Study Chinese Beijing

Stories of the Poor – Zhang Xi and The Rat Tribe of Beijing

Zhang Xi, a young man from Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia, came to Beijing three years ago and since then has always lived inside a basement room on the periphery of the city. Young Xi, a theater and arts graduate, is forced to work as a traveling salesman and only rarely finds work in some …

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“Brothers” by Yu Hua: A glance at modern China

“Brothers” by Yu Hua: A glance at modern China – Book Review

This article was born last week after I went to a private gynecological hospital in Beijing. The damned association phenomenon The fact is that at the doors of this luxury hospital (beside the bathroom that was, as usual, awful) hang up the panels with the specialization of each doctor. Given my mixed feelings of boredom …

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