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This winter, Folklife Festival Marketplace consultant Halle Butvin traveled to Kenya and China along with photographer Josh Eli Cogan to document the stories
Nihao! (Hello!) I am Jing Li, the program coordinator for China: Tradition and the Art of Living, which will be presented at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Cherry blossoms are a symbolic flower of the spring, a time of renewal, and the fleeting nature of life.
Beijing, once capital of the Mongol-ruled Yuan Dynasty in the thirteen and fourteenth centuries, has become a center of Mongolian music in China
My father insists that we are not Chinese. He left Hong Kong as a young man, with a little money in his pocket from siblings and friends
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an ethnobotanist. I wanted to go to the Amazon, talk to people about plants, and have adventures!
In the mountains of central Bhutan, a small group of craftspeople are struggling to sustain traditional
I met the Welsh blacksmith and dry-stone waller at the perfect moment in my life: with two years of graduate school under my belt, I was fed up with thinking.
This poem by Chinese poet Xu Xuan (916-991 CE) honors the transition from winter to spring. According to the Chinese Almanac, March 21 is the first day of the season
Beyond the vast skies over the Kenyan island of Lamu off the shores of East Africa, a beautiful reddish-yellow sunset looms in the west as the moon and stars become faintly visible in the east.
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