This column was written by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. The People's Republic of China is an unusual place; as someone who teaches about China and regularly travels there, I wouldn't want it any other way.

The farmers will be offered the equivalent of $88 per porcupine, $84 per civet cat; $11 per kilogram of bamboo rat, and $17 per kilogram of cobra, king rattle or rat snakes China is taking steps to ...

An increasing number of Chinese pet lovers are turning towards exotic animals including birds, reptiles or even insects other than cats and dogs, partly driven by easier transnational trade and ...

On 16 December 2020 the Chang’e-5 mission, China’s first sample return mission to the Moon, successfully delivered to Earth nearly two kilograms of rocky fragments and dust from our celestial ...

A lion in China has gone viral for his droopy mane. Hang Hang, a male lion at the Guangzhou Zoo, has a mane that many have compared to a mullet or bowl cut – two hairstyles that have blunt bangs.

A long, yellow-gray snake lay motionless in a glass box. On one side, in a separate container, a hairy, black spider about the size of a chicken egg stalked its lair. On the other, a lizard fidgeted ...

China's Ministry of Agriculture says the country is confronted with a growing threat from some 400 poisonous exotic species. The Ministry says China has become one of the countries suffering most from ...

It has been axiomatically accepted that the basement of a continental shelf is the offshore extension and geologically part of the same continental lithosphere. While this notion may hold true in ...

China has warned its citizens not to be tempted by the ruse of "exotic beauties" used by foreign spy organisations as a means to blackmail them. In a post on China's WeChat platform, the Ministry of ...

Image zooming in on the location of the Chang’e-5 landing site while showing nearby impact craters that were examined as possible sources of exotic fragments among the recently returned lunar ...