Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

On Tuesday, the Confucius Institute in Vietnam held a series of Chinese cultural experience activities for Chinese language ...

The book by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the subject of exhibitions in New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and South Carolina.

Visiting China for a two-week seminar on Chinese language ... Chinese history, foreign policies, and paper-cutting, taught by ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

While reading Ayşegül Savaş's third novel, I was reminded of that pile of sand; so plain, seemingly mediocre, yet somehow ...

Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound ...

The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.

Vince Mancini asks why the guys who once fantasized about infiltrating secret Vietcong prison camps are now dreaming up ...

From kung fu classics to Hollywood hits, martial arts cinema boasts several genuine masterpieces that show off the best this ...

Muhammad Dain, 73, a 13th-generation Tok Dalang (puppet master) of traditional Kelantanese Malay wayang kulit, said shifting ...

One oddity of cryptic crosswords is that they rely on shorthand that may not be obvious to foreign, or even just modern English ... which is the symbol used for knights in chess notation.