This self-indulgence is always subordinated, however, to a serious, humane, and healthily subversive purpose. Raise the Red Lantern wasn't banned in China for nothing, after all.

On Tuesday, the Chinese celebrate the Lantern Festival ... These balls of rice flour are made with a variety of fillings (red bean paste, dates, hawthorn fruit, sesame seeds, peanuts, and ...

NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan--Thousands in Taiwan and China celebrated the Lantern Festival on Wednesday by releasing paper lanterns into the night sky, visiting light installations and snacking on ...

Carefully steadying the gleaming red lantern between her knees, a worker applied the Chinese character for "wealth" in golden glitter - one of the millions that will illuminate the forthcoming ...

Zhang Yimou's exquisite Oscar-winning movie about a young woman in pre-Communist China who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy merchant and is then subject to various indignities and intrigues ...