As part of background research for a possible future Smithsonian Folklife Festival themed around medical traditions, we visited Dr. James Duke at his garden in Fulton, Maryland.

Gao Fenglian, deeply affected by her family traditions, has loved paper cutting since she was a little girl. She feels most comfortable with scissors and paper in hand.

What is ethnic media and why is it relevant today? In this podcast, several figures active in ethnic media discuss its fundamental importance to societies across the world.

Dancing in the park is a fairly new phenomenon, and its development is related to other things such as urbanization across the country and changing demographics and family structure in China.

Bicycles in China have long been perceived as a widely used form of cheap transportation. However, this tradition has decreased drastically in recent years with regard to air pollution, new subway lines, and gentrification of cities.

By the 1950s, there were around 4,300 Chinese restaurants in the United States. Currently there are around 50,000—outnumbering U.S. McDonald’s, Burger Kings, and Pizza Huts combined.

According to the 2010 Census, there are over four million people of Chinese ancestry in the United States. For those from diaspora communities such as myself, Chinatowns have functioned as places of security

Songs with politically sensitive lyrics are often censored. In this discussion session from the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, panelists discuss how this happens across multiple geographies, and why musicians always find it meaningful to fight back.

This recipe is from Chef Wang Peng 汪鹏, who is from Huai’an, Jiangsu Province. His home province is the birthplace of one of the most influential cuisines in China, the Huaiyang style

While Americans are dressing in costumes and going from house to house asking for candy on October 31, Peruvians will be celebrating their country’s criolla (creole) culture.