Wuzhen, located to the north of Tongxiang City, is the hometown of Chinese literatus Mao Dun. The typical landscape of southern...
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Wuzhen is a fascinating town. It is also attractive. It does not matter if its faded beauty has had to...
Examination success as the determinant of a young person's life prospects goes back much further in China than in the...
Walking down the town's twisting stone alleyways, crossing the stone bridges, climbing an ancient pagoda or studying Confucian marital ceremonies,...
Much of the ritual still associated with Chinese marriage was established many centuries ago. Even in the twenty-first century after...
Twenty-first-century Wuzhen does more than offer a glimpse of life in Ian attractive late-Qing-dynasty water town. It also seeks to...
A search in the Cambridge University library reveals dozens of books on ACe e food. Most make clear how food...
The West's identification of the seven wonders of the ancient world would Lnever have secured approval in Asia. Given the...
The phrase Land of Rice and Fish', used to describe north Zhejiang province and Wuzhen, could just as well have...
It is the immense age of Chinese literature that immediately strikes the Loutside observer, even if much about China is...
Mardens thrived in ancient China as they did in ancient Rome. Surprisingly Ifor such an ephemeral pastime as gardening, their...
The Pinghua told by the village story teller doubtless included the occasional theatrical prop within their tales, perhaps a rusting...
Wuzhen has lived through its water. Its many waterways hold the traveller's attention. They weave through the town unwinding like...
Some cultural rites are celebrated throughout modern China. Grave Sweeping Day, the poetry of Xu Zhimo, the twenty-four divisions of...