Xiang Song carves out a mold for the production of Hui ink sticks at this workshop in Shexian, Anhui province, in November. ZHAO JINZHENG/XINHUA HEFEI — Featuring motifs ranging from lunar craters to ...

China strongly opposed claims by some overseas organizations that its Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law is intended to "assimilate ethnic minorities", a senior national legislator said on ...

Any mental health care service you use should consider your cultural background. The Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre (QTMHC) offers free mental health services for people from ...

Correspondence to Professor Eivind Engebretsen, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine, 0372 Oslo, Norway; eivind.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no In this introductory ...

Transgender identities have long been part of India’s social and cultural landscape. Parliament’s recent passage of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026, has once again ...

Since October 2023, Israel’s war in Gaza has caused mass human suffering. But it has also brought devastation to the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people. In our recent article in the ...

What is gained and what is lost when contemporary art institutions attempt to define and legitimise Black culture? In December, among the plethora of annual ‘best of’ cultural lists and reviews of the ...

The Faqir Khana family can trace its ancestry to scholarly Muslim nobles who integrated Islamic learning with Persianate administrative traditions. Faqir Azizuddin functioned as the chief diplomat of ...

Tourism development in emerging destinations requires balancing economic benefits with ecological sustainability. In this study, we investigate the case of multi-attraction tourism planning in Qujing ...

Engines snarl and pop against the quiet of a Massachusetts night, their echoes bouncing off strip mall facades and sleepy suburban streets. Under a wash of neon lights — purple, green, red and blue — ...

Background Despite a concerted policy effort in Europe, social inequalities in health are a persistent problem. Developing a standardised measure of socioeconomic level across Europe will improve the ...