Your body is not your limit. Zhang Huan pushes the boundaries of physicality by using his own body as a canvas. From enduring extreme discomfort to challenging the limits of endurance, he explores ...

We tapped Beijing-based SCRY Lab, which specializes in futuristic 3D-printed shoes and accessories, to ask them how they’re planning to “create the future” of fashion through tech in 2025. While ...

The other explanation is the fact that for many second generation Chinese Americans, their parents are natives from Mainland China and are thus “closer” to the “motherland” in a cultural sense. They ...

Zhang Enli turns the ordinary into the poetic—painting of tangled wires, plastic buckets, and empty rooms with a quiet intensity that borders on spirituality. From his early works capturing mundane ...

As the Palace Museum prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025, large-scale renovations are underway, shrouding parts of Beijing’s historic Forbidden City in bold red barricades. While the ...

Resurrection, the latest work by arthouse director Bi Gan (who is also a screenwriter, poet, and photographer!), is a surreal journey through death and dreams, framed in Eastern sci-fi. Starring ...

The first snow of 2002 Came a little later than before Stopped at the second-rate car on the eighth floor And took away the last fallen yellow leaf So begins Dao Lang’s “The First Snow of 2002,” the ...

Noises of the Hong Kong MTR. In the first video of the series, Achi sampled sounds from the Hong Kong MTR (the city’s mass transit system). The audio began with a familiar “Please stand back from the ...

This week, Xi Jinping gave a major speech celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Reform and Opening era. It also happens to be the time of year when I attempt to indoctrinate my wife into the joys of ...

Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, the Chinese app that went viral earlier this year with a flood of TikTok refugees, has recently drawn up major ecommerce plans. Launched in 2013 as a shopping guide app, the ...

This week’s song is sung by Stephanie Chou and Octavia Romano, but we really could’ve chosen any of several versions (e.g., here’s one with Placido Domingo). That’s because “Kangding Love Song” is one ...

From Tong’s observations, there’s been a growing need for Chinese-language spaces after the pandemic, and people in the diaspora are looking for a shared community to heal together. Film series like ...