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Chinese New Year

  • China’s Covid cases may have hit 900 million. What does it mean for the rest of the world?

    China’s Covid cases may have hit 900 million. What does it mean for the rest of the world?

    Michael Toole, The Conversation
    · Jan 21, 2023 · 09:30 pm
  • Happy New Year of the Pig! The fascinating story of the Chinese calendar

    Happy New Year of the Pig! The fascinating story of the Chinese calendar

    Sara Chiesura
    · Feb 04, 2019 · 08:30 pm
  • Illustrated manuscripts show what the Year of the Dog means in Chinese, Japanese and Thai traditions

    Illustrated manuscripts show what the Year of the Dog means in Chinese, Japanese and Thai traditions

    Curators of East Asian and South East Asian Collections
    · Feb 27, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • Malaysia claims barking rooster advertisement to mark Year of the Dog was an error, faces ridicule

    Malaysia claims barking rooster advertisement to mark Year of the Dog was an error, faces ridicule

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 18, 2018 · 08:29 pm
  • China’s 'bare branches’: Unmarried men stuck between tradition and capitalism

    China’s 'bare branches’: Unmarried men stuck between tradition and capitalism

    Xuan Li, The Conversation
    · Jan 29, 2017 · 11:30 pm
  • Born in the Year of the Rooster? Here’s what the Thai zodiac calendar says about you

    Born in the Year of the Rooster? Here’s what the Thai zodiac calendar says about you

    Jana Igunma Henry D Ginsburg
    · Jan 28, 2017 · 08:30 pm
  • The legend of Tong Atchew, the ‘first ancestor of the Chinese in India’

    The legend of Tong Atchew, the ‘first ancestor of the Chinese in India’

    Ipsita Chakravarty
    · Jan 28, 2017 · 11:30 am
  • China's five-hour-long new year gala is said to be earning more disapproval with every passing year

    China's five-hour-long new year gala is said to be earning more disapproval with every passing year

    Shubhra Dixit
    · Feb 09, 2016 · 10:00 am