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Mulian confront his hungry ghost mother in the Kyoto Ghosts Scroll, late 12th century.
haunted

In China, Ghosts Demand the Finer Things in Life

The Hungry Ghost Festival provides them with paper effigies of money, food—and iPhones.
Vittoria Traverso October 19, 2017
The all-duck menu from Nixon’s “reciprocal” dinner.
food

The Nixon Dinners That Taught Americans to Stop Worrying and Love Peking Duck

The president's historic trip to China caused a Chinese food boom.
Anne Ewbank October 16, 2017
A 1900 photograph of Chinatown.
hidden

For Decades, New York's Chinatown Duped 'Slum Tourists' With Faked Danger and Depravity

Opium dens, gunfights, and poverty theater.
Natasha Frost October 2, 2017
A family at home in China, c. 1930.
china

The Split Pants That Are China's Alternative to Diapers

Kai dang ku might reflect the past and future of toilet training.
Vittoria Traverso September 21, 2017
Modern mooncakes for sale in San Francisco's Chinatown.
food

Did Mooncakes Help the Chinese Overthrow the Mongols?

On the enduring power of myth and metaphor.
Natasha Frost August 11, 2017
One of hundreds of thousands of unearthed oracle bones.
ancient

A Chinese Museum Is Offering Big Money to Whomever Can Decode This Ancient Script

The going rate is $15,000 per character.
Michael Waters July 25, 2017
Horses in marble stalls
Wuxi Shi, China

Hailan Horse Culture Museum

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.
film

Watch a Melodramatic Communist Ballet from 1964

A ballerina weeps over the hammer and sickle in Mao's production of "The Red Detachment of Women."
Molly McBride Jacobson January 5, 2017
Minority women in southern China were accused of poisoning northern men with a special poison made of venomous creatures.
poison

The Legendary Chinese Poison Made by Forcing Snakes, Scorpions, and Centipedes to Fight

"Gu" was a mythological substance born from fear, with a dramatic backstory.
Lauren Young November 11, 2016
railroads

China Is Testing Its First Suspended Railway

There's video.
Erik Shilling October 3, 2016
space exploration

China's Space Station Is Orbiting Earth on an Uncontrolled Path of Destruction

Farewell, Tiangong-1.
Erik Shilling September 20, 2016
maps

A Retired Teacher Built a Perfect Scale Map of China on His Terrace

It's beautiful.
Sarah Laskow September 16, 2016
festivals

Check Out This Massive Moon Balloon Terrorizing Streets in China

No one was hurt, apparently.
Erik Shilling September 14, 2016
maps

This Map Proves Britain Loves Tea More Than Anyone Else

The British Isles desired to best China as the tea drinking capital of the world.
Atlas Obscura August 1, 2016
bears

285,000 People Urge a Chinese Park to Free the 'World's Saddest Polar Bear'

Pizza deserves to be happy.
Erik Shilling July 20, 2016
observatories

Why Massive Radio Telescopes Might Be Our Best Shot at Finding Aliens

The search for extraterrestrial life is amping up, after China's debut of the world's largest radio telescope.
Erik Shilling July 7, 2016
news

Beijing is Sinking up to 4 Inches Every Year Because They're Using Too Much Water

It doesn't look good.
Erik Shilling June 30, 2016
news

A Famous Edible Bug Market in Beijing Is Closing

Neighbors complained.
Erik Shilling June 21, 2016