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.
Whenever I hear Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation,” I think of the opening credits of the movie 10 Things I Hate About You.
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!
In the mountains of central Bhutan, a small group of craftspeople are struggling to sustain traditional