Chinese Dumplings,from North to South

(通行南北的饺子) Reading Time: 4 minutes   Every Saturday, I join a group of friends in a decades-old ritual—a dim-sum lunch that includes a plethora of small Cantonese dishes of dumplings, buns, meat balls, pastries, crepe rolls, and fritters. Dim sum (点心) is literally “touch the heart”, but this lunch—reminiscent of our years in Hong Kong where […]

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Dunhuang—the Crown Jewel of Buddhist Art

(佛教艺术的宝库—敦煌) Reading Time: 6 minutes  From the 4th to 14th centuries CE, the city of Dunhuang (敦煌), in northwest China, was a key intersection in the ancient Silk Road—a network of trade routes that connected China with Central and West Asia. To Dunhuang’s east, the Silk Road led to China’s ancient capital Chang’an (长安, today’s Xi’an

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