The Taste of Home: From Cameroon to Heilongjiang
A young engineer sets off from Cameroon for his hometown in Hailin, Heilongjiang, one of the northernmost places in
By Ashlesha Patil|2021-02-12T07:50:35+00:00February 12th, 2021|Images and Videos, Holidays|
A young engineer sets off from Cameroon for his hometown in Hailin, Heilongjiang, one of the northernmost places in
By Ashlesha Patil|2021-02-11T09:12:35+00:00February 11th, 2021|Images and Videos, Vocabulary|
Wouldn’t it be grand if disputing nations would sit down and join in a feast
By Ashlesha Patil|2021-02-08T11:10:07+00:00February 8th, 2021|Architecture, Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, History, Arts, and Culture|
With at least one courtyard enclosed by four single-story buildings that face inward toward the open space, siheyuan represent the quintessential Chinese “courtyard houses.” Throughout China quadrangular courtyard structures come in many configurations, including many that are multistoried and others that have mere “skywells” with shafts of open space instead of broad courtyards. But siheyuan are best known because of their ubiquity in Beijing and other northern cities.
By Ashlesha Patil|2021-02-07T14:40:38+00:00February 7th, 2021|Book Review 推荐书目|
This "what to read about China" list has been much requested, and much debated. It will evolve quickly,
By Ashlesha Patil|2016-09-08T21:41:51+00:00September 8th, 2016|Book Review 推荐书目|
Nancy Pearl is famous in the library world for her lists of books about just about everything and her Book
By Ashlesha Patil|2016-08-30T11:34:44+00:00August 30th, 2016|Book Review 推荐书目|
Mr. China, Tim Clissold, New York: HarperBusiness, 2004 What makes Mr. China special isn’t the disastrous events it describes—although these include massive
By Ashlesha Patil|2016-08-30T11:31:46+00:00August 30th, 2016|Book Review 推荐书目|
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, Ted C. Fishman, New York: Simon & Schuster,
By Ashlesha Patil|2014-10-27T06:51:12+00:00October 27th, 2014|Blog|
We are happy and proud to announce that the first three volumes of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography are
By Ashlesha Patil|2014-10-20T06:00:19+00:00October 20th, 2014|Blog|
Eight Treasure Rice (babaofan). From www.yireservation.com The world is full of unexpected connections, little links that pop up
By Ashlesha Patil|2013-08-19T04:44:27+00:00August 19th, 2013|ChinaConnectU, China in Numbers|
Sometimes somebody writes a book that, in retrospect, turns out to have predicted the future quite accurately. Some people write