Cultural Post

A dumpling is composed of meat and/or vegetables, rolled inside a thin piece of dough. It can be boiled, steamed or fried. The most common ones are called jiaozi (饺子). Jiaozi are mostly eaten in the Shandong area (North-East of China) and can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Read more…

Anybody who has been reading the news these days has certainly heard about the controversy that involved the two famous stylists Dolce and Gabbana and the Chinese citizens. But what happened exactly? It all began because of an advertising that was supposed to promote D&G’s upcoming fashion show in Shanghai. Read more…

Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea, is a tea-based drink invented in Taiwan in the 1980s. It quickly became popular at first across China and other Asian countries, then this new vogue spread rapidly all over the world. The original recipe consisted of a mixture of black tea Read more…

The city of Shenzhen is situated in the north of Hong Kong and it is considered as China’s Cupertino, as it is the centre of China’s hi-tech industry. Here, for instance, there are Huawei’s headquarters, the world’s third most productive company of smartphones after Apple and Samsung. But Shenzhen is Read more…

China’s Single’s Day (单身节), also known as ‘Bare Branch Day’ (光棍节), is an annual non-official holiday celebrated on November 11. The holiday is believed to have started in 1993 at the dormitories of Nanjing University. Four single university male students gathered to discuss how to break the single-hood and chose November 11 Read more…

For months now China and the United States have been locked in a so called “trade war” imposing on each other tariffs on imported goods. The question that naturally arises is whether an end to these tensions could be near. Hopes that the two nations would ease the pressures spurred Read more…

Choosing a name for a newborn is a very delicious and complicated decision for parents, especially in China. Apart from surname, the Chinese name is usually composed by one or two characters. There are about ten thousand different Chinese characters and each of them can be used as name, the Read more…