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HEADLESS women in body-hugging dresses. Pregnant women, their bellies protruding in fertile abundance. Scrubwomen washing dishes, doing laundry, folding clothes. Girl-women jumping rope in effortless monotony. Chinese choreographer Wen Hui has collected these images for her evening-length work "Report on Body," which makes its...

RANDOLPH -- At their Randolph home, Hong Kong natives Sue and Jason Cheung keep their feet in two countries the best way they know how -- through language. They speak to their four children in both English and Chinese, recognizing the need for...

In Alaska, students are calling their teacher "lao shi." In Illinois, they're learning that one plus one equals "er." And in western Massachusetts, kindergarten students who can sing their ABCs will soon start honing Mandarin accents.As China's economic power grows, Chinese is becoming the new...

Chinese lawmakers will consider modifying a system that lets police send crime suspects to labor camps without trial, state media said Thursday.However, the legislators apparently have no plan to ban it, as international right groups have recommended.A new version of the "re-education through labor" system,...

The differences of color words between English and Chinese culture. Because of different language habits, historical background, traditional customs, there are many differences in the usage of colors and color words as well as in the understanding for the same color.