Charming China: Man-made Wonders The Qinghai-Tibet Railway (青藏铁路) The Qinghai-Tibet Railway starts in Xining, the capital city of China's Qinghai Province and stretches to Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Almost the entire...

All in a Dream There was once a Grand Lama who had three young disciples. Known to be stingy and greedy, the Grand Lama never shared anything, not even the tiniest amount of food, with his disciples. One day one disciple said to the other two,...

The Mouse Gets Married （老鼠娶亲） Once there was a mouse whose daughter had come of age and was ready to get married. When the mother mouse asked her daughter who she would like to marry, she replied, “Whoever is most powerful is who I will...

Charming China: Landforms The Loess Plateau (黄土高坡地形) The Loess Plateau is the world's largest distribution of loess (sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt). Beginning east of Qilian Mountains (located on the border of...

Meme China (Internet Culture from the Middle Kingdom) The Bus Uncle The Bus Uncle is a Cantonese YouTube viral video clip of a quarrel between two men aboard a bus in Hong Kong on 27 April 2006. While the older man, who came to be nicknamed the Bus...