The 139th Canton Fair (China Import and Export Fair) officially opens in Guangzhou today, April 15, 2026, running through May 5. This edition of the world’s largest biannual trade fair features three distinct phases, each focusing on different product categories themed on “advanced manufacturing,” “quality home life,” and “better life.” For overseas buyers and business…
Qiaojia Grand Courtyard Cultural Park isn’t just a pretty old house. It’s one of the best places in China to understand how a single merchant family helped invent modern banking — centuries before Silicon Valley started calling everything “fintech.” There’s a famous saying in Chinese travel culture: “The emperor has the Forbidden City; for civilian…
Dalian Maritime University (DMU) is probably not the first name that comes up when international students search for universities in China. But here’s what makes it genuinely different from almost any other university on the planet — your degree might include time at sea, on a real ocean-going vessel, learning navigation in the middle of…
What is Midu Echoing? The story behind the 400-year-old Yunnan folk song whose phonk remix hit 4 billion Douyin views and sparked a global gesture-dance trend.
The Yellow (Bohai) Sea Migratory Bird Habitat sits at the centre of one of the planet’s most extraordinary wildlife events — and most travellers have never heard of it. Every spring and autumn, millions of shorebirds funnel through this narrow stretch of China’s eastern coastline, making it the single most critical stopover on the East…
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is not the first school that comes to mind when you think of campus culture. Finance universities have a reputation — serious, numbers-heavy, career-obsessed. So what happens when students from over 80 countries converge on a compact campus in Yangpu, Shanghai, once a year, and each one tries to…
A fossil site in southwest China has just upended one of biology’s oldest timelines. Researchers working in Yunnan Province recovered more than 700 fossil specimens that push the origin of complex animal life back by at least 4 million years — well before the event scientists had long treated as the starting gun for animal…
The Yungang Grottoes don’t look like a crossroads. From the outside, they’re a long sandstone cliff face in northern Shanxi, roughly 16 kilometers west of a mid-sized Chinese city called Datong. But step inside Cave 12 — the one locals call the “Music Cave” — and something unexpected happens. You’re looking at a Persian harp….
Anhui University holds a credential most international students have never heard of — and it might just change how you think about learning Chinese in China. In 2000, China’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office under the State Council officially designated Anhui University (AHU) as a Teaching Base for Chinese Language and Culture (Stony Brook University Study…
Datiehua (打铁花) is one of the most visually stunning — and least-known — spectacles in Chinese folk culture. Shirtless craftsmen scoop molten iron heated to 1,600°C, then hurl it skyward against wooden structures. The result? A cascade of thousands of sparks exploding across the night sky. No CGI. No safety net. Just fire, iron, and…
