Curtis Smith, associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Grand Valley State University, cradles the unglazed clay teapot from the Yixing village in Jiangsu province near Shanghai -- a ...

DRESSED IN A cassock-like kimono, the tea master prepares the infusion as his hushed congregation watches. Soshin Kimura, grand master of the Hoshinkai tea school, wields his implements with all the ...

Find out who conducts the pre-wedding hair-combing ceremony, how to play door games on the big day and the role a red umbrella plays A Chinese wedding has many of the trappings of a Western marriage ...