The China Beat

By the end of this post, readers will have been able to click on a word to be introduced to the sounds of "Redgrass Music" (a genr...

Last week, we ran the first part of a series of popular Chinese jokes, translated by Guo Qitao, a UCI history professor. While the earlier j...

(Part One) Understanding jokes in another language is often the highest test of fluency, based as they often are on puns and insider cultura...

Danwei.org recently called attention to plans being made in Beijing to stage a musical based on Karl Marx's major tome, Das Kapital , a...

We received many correct answers to last week’s Frivolous Friday quiz . For the prize of a copy of China's Brave New World--And Other Ta...

China Beat 's First (and Maybe Last) Quiz with a Prize for the Winner Jeff Wasserstrom recently mentioned in an interview with City Week...

By Jeffrey Wasserstrom As regular readers of this blog already know , I recently crossed the Pacific to take part in the Beijing Forum, a fa...

This is just a little list, for the "Frivolous Friday" feature, made up of tidbits about the site. It may have curiosity value fo...

1) Some Questions: How do you say “I’m from Quebec” in Chinese? When protesters gathered outside of Carrefour stores in China and sang songs...

(Posted by the China Beat on behalf of Nicole Barnes) I live in Southern California where I always have to look my best, so I get my eyebro...

Last year saw some curious news stories appear that linked China with Hollywood, from ones involving Mia Farrow’s critical views of the Beij...

Rachel DeWoskin's Babes in Beijing is only one example of an increasingly frank discussion over the past few years of the experiences of...