There's a Chinese saying I heard the other day: "You close the door before beating your dog." It was a phrase tossed around a lot during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

As translated by Asian language professors Larry and Qin Herzberg, the three proverbs quoted above mean the following, respectively: “People often cannot see their own shortcomings” “Anything can be ...

You may want to order some Chinese takeout and indulge in some fortune cookie therapy this Sunday, says National Day Calendar. Yes, it is National Fortune Cookie Day. Chinese restaurants ...

The three Chinese proverbs are among the more than 500 in the couple’s new book, Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings. The book offers insight into a fund of traditional wisdom that dates back 2,500 ...