Jemima Baar hails from England but has lived in Hong Kong, Hangzhou, and (currently) Beijing. She was a The China Project intern in early 2018, and is currently an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_qz7LuqVU The phrase “自由花” (zìyóu huā), or “flowers of freedom,” has appeared in several seminal moments in Chinese history. The last sentence Wang Buwen 王步文...
She’s alternative, free-spirited, and unpredictable. In 2016, Dabozz 大包子 resigned from her job at a state-owned financial institution to pursue music as a full-time career...
She has been called China’s “first artist of the folk world” (“民谣界第一位”), but it would be somewhat inaccurate to simply brand Chen Li 陈粒 in this...
Helen Feng, the Queen of Beijing Rock, the “Blondie of China,” has been making waves in the Chinese music scene for almost two decades. Here...
It was a podcast episode about China in late 2016, featuring only male voices, that spurred Joanna Chiu to action. She had been a journalist...
“Bloodstained Glory” is inconceivable: a song claimed by China’s most zealous patriots and its most ardent dissidents as representing both of their conflicting causes. The...
From preparing to travel home to preparing a New Year’s Eve feast, take a look at how people in Beijing readied themselves for the new...
Today is lunar New Year’s Eve 除夕(chú xī), the most traditional and important holiday on the Chinese calendar, a day of celebration and reflection. It...
In Chinese myth, the dog came second to last in the race to determine the order of the zodiac — but starting tomorrow, when the...