Episodes
Yang Baosen was one of the most famous Peking Opera masters of the last century who developed a singing technique that still bears his name-Yang Pai, or Yang style. This year marks the 110th birthday of Yang Baosen. But why was Yang considered to be the Van Gogh of Peking Opera?
Published 11/20/19
A widespread greeting in China during the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, is "Wishing you have fish every year"; which means wishing you the best of luck and prosperity every year,as the Chinese character of “fish” is homophonic to the character of “abundance”. Good wishes have become reality in Jilin Province's Chagan Lake, in China's northeast. Millions of tourists have seen the catch from the local winter fishing season, and have been impressed by the "walls of fish" on the...
Published 11/20/19
A widespread greeting in China during the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, is "Wishing you have fish every year"; which means wishing you the best of luck and prosperity every year,as the Chinese character of “fish” is homophonic to the character of “abundance”. Good wishes have become reality in Jilin Province's Chagan Lake, in China's northeast. Millions of tourists have seen the catch from the local winter fishing season, and have been impressed by the "walls of fish" on the...
Published 11/20/19
Yang Baosen was one of the most famous Peking Opera masters of the last century who developed a singing technique that still bears his name-Yang Pai, or Yang style. This year marks the 110th birthday of Yang Baosen. But why was Yang considered to be the Van Gogh of Peking Opera?
Published 11/20/19
A widespread greeting in China during the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, is "Wishing you have fish every year"; which means wishing you the best of luck and prosperity every year,as the Chinese character of “fish” is homophonic to the character of “abundance”. Good wishes have become reality in Jilin Province's Chagan Lake, in China's northeast. Millions of tourists have seen the catch from the local winter fishing season, and have been impressed by the "walls of fish" on the...
Published 11/20/19
Yang Baosen was one of the most famous Peking Opera masters of the last century who developed a singing technique that still bears his name-Yang Pai, or Yang style. This year marks the 110th birthday of Yang Baosen. But why was Yang considered to be the Van Gogh of Peking Opera?
Published 11/20/19
To feed 20 percent of the world’s population with only seven percent of the world’s arable land is certainly a challenge. But that’s what China has been working on for the last 70 years. With a population of 1.4 billion, China faces a tremendous task: how to feed so many mouths? We explored a remote place called Qixing Farm in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province to find the answer.
Published 11/19/19
To feed 20 percent of the world’s population with only seven percent of the world’s arable land is certainly a challenge. But that’s what China has been working on for the last 70 years. With a population of 1.4 billion, China faces a tremendous task: how to feed so many mouths? We explored a remote place called Qixing Farm in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province to find the answer.
Published 11/19/19
To feed 20 percent of the world’s population with only seven percent of the world’s arable land is certainly a challenge. But that’s what China has been working on for the last 70 years. With a population of 1.4 billion, China faces a tremendous task: how to feed so many mouths? We explored a remote place called Qixing Farm in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province to find the answer.
Published 11/19/19
Tea or coffee, which one do you prefer? Here in a traditionally tea-drinking country, a growing number of people are pouring coffee into their cups. The rather exotic and middle-class beverage has witnessed double digit growth in demand over recent years along with China's opening-up to the outside world and improvement in people's living standards. In some big cities, going out to drink coffee have even become a daily routine and lifestyle for mostly young people. But all these development...
Published 11/15/19
Tea or coffee, which one do you prefer? Here in a traditionally tea-drinking country, a growing number of people are pouring coffee into their cups. The rather exotic and middle-class beverage has witnessed double digit growth in demand over recent years along with China's opening-up to the outside world and improvement in people's living standards. In some big cities, going out to drink coffee have even become a daily routine and lifestyle for mostly young people. But all these development...
Published 11/15/19
Tea or coffee, which one do you prefer? Here in a traditionally tea-drinking country, a growing number of people are pouring coffee into their cups. The rather exotic and middle-class beverage has witnessed double digit growth in demand over recent years along with China's opening-up to the outside world and improvement in people's living standards. In some big cities, going out to drink coffee have even become a daily routine and lifestyle for mostly young people. But all these development...
Published 11/15/19
Non-profit organizations and young college graduates in China are joining hands to bring quality education to students living in underdeveloped regions.
Published 11/12/19
Non-profit organizations and young college graduates in China are joining hands to bring quality education to students living in underdeveloped regions.
Published 11/12/19
Non-profit organizations and young college graduates in China are joining hands to bring quality education to students living in underdeveloped regions.
Published 11/12/19
Non-profit organizations and young college graduates in China are joining hands to bring quality education to students living in underdeveloped regions.
Published 11/12/19
Continue to join Manling to hear stories from our guest Joy Chen, who is well known in China for becoming the deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the age of 31 and for her 2012 book “Do Not Marry Before Age 30”.
Published 11/05/19
Continue to join Manling to hear stories from our guest Joy Chen, who is well known in China for becoming the deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the age of 31 and for her 2012 book “Do Not Marry Before Age 30”.
Published 11/05/19
Continue to join Manling to hear stories from our guest Joy Chen, who is well known in China for becoming the deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the age of 31 and for her 2012 book “Do Not Marry Before Age 30”.
Published 11/05/19
Continue to join Manling to hear stories from our guest Joy Chen, who is well known in China for becoming the deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the age of 31 and for her 2012 book “Do Not Marry Before Age 30”.
Published 11/05/19
Let's follow Manling to hear stories from Joy Chen, who is well known in China for becoming the deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the age of 31 and for her 2012 book “Do Not Marry Before Age 30”.
Published 10/29/19
Let's follow Manling to hear stories from Joy Chen, who is well known in China for becoming the deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the age of 31 and for her 2012 book “Do Not Marry Before Age 30”.
Published 10/29/19
The number 127 was a signpost in the career of the former investment banker turned NGO founder Chung To. He’s now the head of the Chi Heng Foundation, the NGO he established in Hong Kong in 1998 with a mere 100 Hong Kong dollars. His decision was driven more by instinct than logic: He had an impulse to help people whose lives were turned upside down by the raging AIDS epidemic. This instinct grew stronger and stronger until, in 2001, he left the world of finance and invested everything he had...
Published 10/22/19
The number 127 was a signpost in the career of the former investment banker turned NGO founder Chung To. He’s now the head of the Chi Heng Foundation, the NGO he established in Hong Kong in 1998 with a mere 100 Hong Kong dollars. His decision was driven more by instinct than logic: He had an impulse to help people whose lives were turned upside down by the raging AIDS epidemic. This instinct grew stronger and stronger until, in 2001, he left the world of finance and invested everything he had...
Published 10/22/19
The number 127 was a signpost in the career of the former investment banker turned NGO founder Chung To. He’s now the head of the Chi Heng Foundation, the NGO he established in Hong Kong in 1998 with a mere 100 Hong Kong dollars. His decision was driven more by instinct than logic: He had an impulse to help people whose lives were turned upside down by the raging AIDS epidemic. This instinct grew stronger and stronger until, in 2001, he left the world of finance and invested everything he had...
Published 10/22/19