Sister Dana sez, “May I be the first to wish you a Happy VALENTINE’S DAY, although this is really just a Hallmark Greeting Cards way of exploiting a monk who was tortured, beheaded, martyred, and ...

Jessica Soho, one of the country’s most celebrated broadcast journalists, has spent her career not just covering the most ...

Huo Meng's 'Living the Land' observes four generations of farmers as they weather age-old obstacles, new advancements and the ...

Through nuclear genome research, Chinese scientists have recently discovered that people from the Ryukyu Islands have ancestral roots in Shandong province.

Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) and the Institute of Oceanology, both ...

Such knots are seen as the predecessors of Chinese characters. In ancient times, Chinese ancestors tied different knots to keep records and convey messages, before the invention of written characters.

as people burned paper money to ensure that even the ancestors can feel the financial boon that the biggest holiday of the year usually brings to the living. In recent years, however, China's economic ...

Ancestor worship is also common ... fish and meats. In the Chinese culture, for example, “changshou mian” or “long-life noodles” are consumed with a wish for a long, healthy and happy ...

“That is a moment that I will take with me to my grave,” says Tamara Lanier, describing the first time she saw the image of her ancestor, an enslaved man known by his descendants as Papa Rent ...

(Thank goodness for the California Gold Rush of 1849.) Once in the United States, my Chinese ancestors remained in the Chinatown San Francisco and Sacramento areas. When I moved to Corning ...

The holiday began as a time for feasting and to honor household and heavenly deities, as well as ancestors. The Chinese Benevolent Association of Stockton will host its Chinese New Year ...