Photo by Elaine Kong, Unsplash.com Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to All! A time of family reunion and celebrating harvest bounty. Mooncakes...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America Central China’s Henan Province is a national breadbasket and a hi-tech hub, helping to...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 34 A reflection on peaches in Chinese culture, symbolism, and myth and what...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America , Vol. 3, Issue 33 In China, alcohol isn’t just alcohol. It’s a key that unlocks...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 31 Americans are taught to fear China through government and media...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 30 China has always been molded by its land boundaries. Throughout recorded history, this is where the Han people of China encountered, fought, conquered, were conquered, and co-existed with numerous cultures and civilizations. China’s peripheries are fault lines. Borderlands that have been absorbed, resisted, erased, and reasserted over time. This was as true when a smaller, historic China was centered in the heartla

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 27 I recently returned from almost a month in China, primarily spent in Henan...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 26 March. Mid-Spring. My exploration of a transcultural appreciation of art...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 25 March is mid-spring on China’s lunar calendar. Winter’s grip has loosened,...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 24 “Another scientist/engineer of Chinese descent, long in America, has...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 23 History. The boring subject school kids dread; the consequential topic that...

Gund Kwok , the only Asian Women Lion & Dragon Dance Troupe in the U.S., ushered in the Year of the Snake with an innovative and...

(image by www.royalmint.com ) The Lunar New Year is today, January 29, 2025. It is the Year of the Snake. This begins Spring Festival...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 22 Thinking about China. And America. Even when I am not. In today’s issue, a...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 19 Today is the last day of 2024. As we prepare to turn the page on a new...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 16 This American Thanksgiving week, I am returning in prose to Bhutan (I...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 14 Hiking was on the itinerary in Bhutan. I enjoy hiking because it makes the...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 13 This new series journeys to Bhutan, a small, Buddhist country in...

The August full harvest moon is upon us. Gazing up at Chang'e, the Moon Goddess. Bright lanterns. Sweet moon cakes (lotus seed are my...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 8 Today’s Issue continues the conversation of Chinese and American cultures...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 7 If we want to understand the relationship between China and America,...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 6                          Longzihu Park in Zhengzhou (photo by Nie Donghan,...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 5 America celebrates several Heritage Months each year. This fifth month of...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 4 I recently wrote about U.S.-China connections in Gilded Age America. Today I...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 2 America and China have been directly linked for almost two-and-one-half...

I wish everyone a healthy and prosperous Year of the Dragon! 祝大家龙年快乐,身体健康,万事如意!!

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 38 Chapel Vestibule, Fronteira Palace The Portuguese fell in love with...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 36 Today's Issue claims only a wispy connection with China, so please indulge...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 34 Portuguese in India, c. 1548 Frank, Farang , Ferenghi , Folangji ,...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 32 China is the land of the “Three Teachings” – Confucianism, Daoism, and...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 30 The historical Cape Cod and China Connection came to me again during a...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 28 This third and final installment of Asia in the Hudson River Valley brings...

Continuing with the Buddhist theme I wrote about last week, the following is an excerpt from my visit to the world's largest stupa in...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and Americal, Vol. 2, Issue 27 Today’s Encounters with Asia in the Hudson River Valley (Part 2) visits a...

Mabel Choate spent one month in Beijing in 1935. She brought home porcelains, lacquers, stone sculptures, snuff bottles, paintings, and...

I was recently back in Dutchess County, New York, to attend my college reunion. A weekend of old and new. I retraced my steps to the...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 25 A friend recently blogged her reaction to a short YouTube video of famed...

During the Covid years, I was offered a collection of art magazines and catalogues. When going through the bags, I discovered that the...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 23 Torrance, California is a short drive south of Los Angeles. As you cruise...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 22 In 1980 a young English photographer boarded an American cruise ship in...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 20 Chinese Tea. American Ships. British Trade. Boston Harbor. A Faraway King....

(photo by Merakist on Unsplash) Before, and particularly during, the Covid-19 pandemic, China began limiting the social media exposure of...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 19 China boasts an energized, under-40 population of more than one half...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 17 My Chinese professor once told me that if I did not expect anything (as I...

This morning life intersected with art. I began writing a novel four years ago. Historical fiction. I researched. I went on a writing...

This Special Issue welcomes the Lunar New Year 2023! My home of Cape Cod held a New Year’s celebration yesterday. It was a packed house...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 14 The New Year has arrived. It can be a time of new journeys and hopefully...

I stepped outside my front door at 5:45 a.m. this morning, January 1, 2023. Above me hundreds of stars, including the Big Dipper directly...

Chinese meme of Gen-Z worker telling boss to shut up (From @乌鸦校尉 on Zhihu) This Sixthtone.com article on Gen-Z workers in China is timely...

For our family gathering on the eighth and last night of Chanukah (which coincided with Christmas this year), my mother swapped out the...