a traditional Chinese wedding vow

I want to be your love for ever and ever,
Without break or decay.
When the hills are all flat,
The rivers are all dry.
When it thunders in winter,
When it snows in summer
When heaven and earth mingle,
Not till then will I part from you.

Chinese Zodiac Animals

Chinese use 12 Chinese zodiac animals to represent every lunar year. So every 12 years is a cycle. The 12 animals are: rat, ox, tiger…

Make me Pretty!

This story is about my personal experience at a Chinese photo shooting studio in Guangzhou, China. I was in Guangzhou for a short family visit.

My cousin bought herself and me each a package to take self portraits in a studio, which apparently is a global chain (they started…

7 China Decades, 7 Blockbuster Comedies: What each film reveals about each era, and today

前赤壁賦

前赤壁賦扇面，錄詞寫意。

“寄蜉蝣於天地，渺蒼海之一粟；哀吾生之須臾,羨長江之無窮；挾飛仙以遨遊，抱明月而長終；知不可乎驟得，託遺響於悲風。”是千古哀歌。但飄風中是否真的留不下那縷縷餘音？我們不知不覺中都已活在電波的國度裹。若有…

10 Things You Can Get Away With Doing in China

This article originally appeared on globaljess.com.

The things those travel books won’t tell you, courtesy of an American who lived in Beijing.

罷如江海凝清光

不知道是如何愛上武學，更說不清何以對太極如此痴纏。自幼就是滿腦子的趙子龍、關雲長、張飛、馬超、荆軻、聶政、秦叔寶、尉遲恭、林沖、九紋龍、越女劍、大刀王五、甘鳳池……。什麼都想學，但什麼都…

Where did I come from? Chang鄭 Chock卓 Sai 佘Wung翁 and Ching

‘An adventure to find more of my Chinese heritage and my home village’

“I was born in a van…down by the river…”