Egg tarts are beloved by many in Hong Kong. The taste of the flakey crust and warm silky custard is just heavenly

The East African coast is littered with plastic and rubber waste that floats across the Indian Ocean from as far away as India and Indonesia, including countless discarded rubber flip-flops.

I recently received an invitation from Dr. Wang Hangguang, director general of Guizhou Province Department of Culture, to join him and his colleagues in Guiyang

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!

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