The festival has long been associated with the poet Qu Yuan (342–278BC). It is because of him, the legend goes, that we row dragon boats and eat zongzi, sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo ...

Chi Pang-yuan, the noted scholar and writer, died Friday in Taiwan at the age of 100, according to local media reports. Chi was born in 1924 in northeast China, left her hometown in 1930 shortly ...