SANJIAZI, China — Seated cross-legged in her farmhouse on the kang, a brick sleeping platform warmed by a fire below, Meng Shujing lifted her chin and sang a lullaby in Manchu, softly but clearly.

The first ancestors of the Manchu were the Sushen, a people who lived during the second and first millennia BC. They were followed by the Yilou people, who were active from AD 202 to 220. The Wuji ...

Ethnic hatred exists in almost every culture. The history of some hatreds may go back hundreds, or even thousands of years. As people growing up in China, we find that the relationship between Han ...

Liu Guizhi (first from left), a third-generation inheritor of Benxi Manchu paper-cutting, demonstrates the traditional craft to international paper-cutting enthusiasts. Benxi Manchu paper-cutting – ...