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Chopsticks – The ‘When’ and The ‘How’

When visiting a Chinese restaurant, it would be inconceivable not to use the proper eating implements, the ubiquitous chopsticks. But ther...

Answer to Sugar lies in China?

In recent years, research has shown that the biggest epidemic facing us today is obesity, caused by excessive consumption of sugar and cor...
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A Roman Legacy in China?

Whenever one mentions the Silk Road, images are conjured up of caravans travelling across the central Asian plains carrying silk and other g...

Dave’s Finest Hour – An incident on the NZCFS Diverse Chin...

There is a well-known law of nature, called Murphy’s Law, which dictates that if anything can go wrong on a venture, it usually does.   Occa...

Rhubarb – Humble Vege or Imperial Medicine?

‘A plant beloved by emperors and bartered for among nations’ - not quite the epithet you would associate with the lowly rhubarb, but that ha...

Tibet – Myth and Reality: A brief history of Tibet before...

This article, by American historian Foster Stockwell, gives his view of the history of Tibet from the 13th Century to 2004, and is quite eye...

A first experience of visiting a Chinese farmhouse of Fujian Pr...

China in July, 2012, had been exhausting, and for nearly two weeks we had endured temperatures of 35deg.C on a regular basis and I was hea...

The Woodcarvers of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, in China

We almost missed the workshop, passing by on a warm summer’s day as we strolled in the afternoon sun.  Then we saw in the dull light a mos...

Volunteer Teaching in China (VICTour) – an initial tour, O...

The following are two reports on the first VICTour, which took place in October 2011, with the assistance and support of the National Chines...

The greening of the Beijing municipality (2011)

Article by Ruth Henderson, Hibiscus Coast branch’s delegate for the 2011 Prominent Persons and Leaders Delegation.A highlight of the 2...

Taking a bus in China ‐ Fuzhou, Fujian province

Many people visit China as a tourist and never experience the delights and tribulations (though the latter are slight and rare...) of goin...