Interesting Articles

by Carolyn KingHome cooking through the generations since Chinese Women Settled in New Zealand over the last 100 yearsThis book contains ove...

by Sabriye Tenberken  (Arcade Publishing 2004, Ulverscroft Large Print 2000, ISBN-10: 1559706945 )A young blind German woman goes to Tibet t...

It is only in the last decade, however, that wine has begun to be imported into the country. Now the Chinese are starting to cultivate more ...

by Chan Koonchung - Translation: Michael S. Duke  (Doubleday, 2011, ISBN: 13: 9780552776974)This book by Chan Koonchung, the Shanghai-born a...

By Hong Ying (New York: Grove Press, 1998. 278 pp. ISBN 0–8021–1637–x)Stories of growing up in China are becoming more and more common.  Wil...

This is a story about a train crash that happened in China in 1988 and became known as the “January 24th Incident” in which many people di...

Article by Jane Hole, author and Christchurch member, about a famous garden and water town. Jane authored ‘Under the Huang Jiao Tree’, a b...

这是非凡的发现，几个星期前我们和一个多年一起打羽毛球的香港中国朋友喝咖啡时，谈起孙中山先生和中国民国革命。 他并没说什麼，只从他的口袋里取出一张陈旧的照片，便开始描述他的家人与孙中山先生的关系，他的堂伯父 “ 杨衢云 ” 的故事便这样的开始了。  这位朋友告诉我们，这张引起议论...

It's extraordinary what one finds out in conversation with one's friends.  We have been playing badminton for some years with a Chinese frie...

'Ost trifft West · East meets West · 东西相遇', by Fang Liu 刘扬, published by Hermann Schmidt Verlag Mainz, 2013, 9th Print, ISBN 978-3874397339A...

We may never know what sounds and melodies the Greeks and Romans invented, nor what rhythms persuaded them to get up and dance. There are wr...