Chameleon: How Chinese food has adapted to its surroundings worldwide
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 01:00
By Elizabeth Greenberg, Staff Writer
La gallete des Rois (in English, often known as a king cake) is typically eaten in France in celebration of the festival of Epiphany during the Christmas season. A small plastic or porcelain figurine is buried in the cake, and the guest who has the figurine in their piece of cake becomes king for the day.
Garlic: Is The Price Right?
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2011 00:00
In mid-January of this year, authorities seized 144 tons of Chinese garlic that had been smuggled into Poland disguised as onions.
Facebook in China
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- Published on Thursday, 03 February 2011 00:00
By Anthony James, Staff Writer
Late last December, Facebook's billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg took a learning tour of China, sampled the corporate campuses, and met with its top tech leaders. There were many rumors concerning what the trip meant for one of the most influential people in the world. One thing was for sure: Facebook has its sights on China's emerging social media market.
Chinese Inventions
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- Published on Thursday, 03 February 2011 00:00
Gunpowder
By Anthony James, Staff Writer
There are few devices that changed the course of modern warfare so distinctly as the invention of gunpowder. It's compact, easy to load into a small firearm, and relatively easy to create...save the part where it could blow up and kill you. With the invention of firearms, gunpowder turned the puniest of soldier into the most deadly warrior.
China's Ethnic Minorities
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- Published on Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:00
We continue our series on China’s 55 ethnic minority groups. This month features the Yi ethnic minority.
