Dear ChinaBlog.cc Readers,
It’s Carnival time!
As the only active CHINA carnival on blogcarnival.com, China Story Carnival officially debuts today! Hooray!
I plan to host China Story Carnival once a month. It is our place to share our experiences and stories about China among all the bloggers around the world. Join us!
In this first issue, we got three submissions. mmm, not so many, but every piece is nice to read. So grab a coffee or tea, lay back to your cozy chair, and start clicking!
Chris presents Farting to Enlightenment posted at Martial …

link(@facebook) : How much do you know about China?
Facebook or Quizbook?
Perhaps it was since last month that facebook started to turn into a quizbook. Different kinds of quiz results fill my home page every day. No app has been as viral as quizzes before. Some quizzes are pretty well designed and fun to take, a lot of the others are poorly made, just to add heat to the quiz craze. Do you think so?
A China Quiz
And I just made my contribution to this fashion. Spent several hours yesterday, I created …

Official Blog (Site) of Longzaitian Shadow Theatre (龙在天皮影)
http://blog.sina.com.cn/longzaitianpiying (In Chinese).
Longzaitian Shadow Theatre: the ONLY theatre in Beijing with regular performances.
Faded glory of Chinese shadow puppetry
Chinese shadow puppetry had its prime time during Qing Dynasty. Then after 1840, in the continuous turmoil of social and political instability, the ever-prosperous shadow puppetry was repressed hardly to almost extinction. A little portion was luckily saved as grass-root folk art.
After 1978, when political stability and economic order were re-established in China, both the government and the public started to revive this ancient art. It …

Today, Liz at pocketcultures.com introduced China Story Weekly to her readers in this blog post: Stories of China. Thanks, Liz!

PocketCultures is a great blog dedicated to world cultures:
Our aim is to provide a guide to world cultures.
PocketCultures would like to be a place where you can go to find out about what life is really like in different countries that you haven’t travelled to, and hopefully to find even more information, and join in the discussion about countries you have visited.
PocketCultures has three sections: Blogs of the world; Topics of …

Storyteller: Have you ever grow some plants by yourself, such as flowers, veggie, or tomatoes? I do. I grow some tomatoes in my small backyard. How do we look after the plants and help them grow? It’s a lot of different work, indeed. Watering, fertilizing, flood, heat, disease, insects, wind, cold, weed, etc…, there are lots of things to worry from plant to harvest.  That’s just for casual plant lovers like me, for the farmers whose lives are totally associated with crops, things could be even harder. No wonder a …