China’s Miao ethnic group reveres trees, believing that they symbolise the life of humans; they also worship vegetation at important stages of life. The Miao people, whose population numbers over 10 ...

While visiting Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village of Kaili, the capital of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Guizhou province, Gestri noted: "I often experience the ...

Perched in the mountains of Qiandongnan, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village – part of Leishan County – is the largest Miao settlement in the country. It was once a place ...

This May, the Xiaoshuijing Miao Farmers Choir officially celebrated its 20th anniversary. Based in the predominantly A-Hmao Miao village of the same name, not far from the Yunnan provincial capital of ...

At an ethnic Miao embroidery workshop tucked in the mountains of Xiangxi, Central China's Hunan Province, the first thing visitors hear is not a guide's introduction, but the dense hum of embroidery ...

The China program at the 2014 Folklife Festival provided so much to see—even for a native Chinese person like myself. And as a graduate student specializing in international development policy, I am ...