William Langley is a writer, researcher, and translator based in Guangzhou. He graduated from Oxford with a degree in Chinese last year. He spends his days tracking down ancestral temples, translating Ming Dynasty records and researching stories. Follow him @WillLangley96.
Last month, the charity MercyHK invited Hong Kong's homeless to a screening of the award-winning movie "I'm Living It," which dramatizes the plight of the Hong Kong's down and out. For many of the attendees, the film was a long-overdue respite from the outside world, albeit a tragic and melodramatic one.
Combining techniques from the East and West, “the father of modern Chinese painting” created a style distinctly his own.
The district of Yuexiu in Guangzhou is a diorama of the early history of the CCP and the KMT. It is a blood-stained landscape in miniature, however, and one that looks capable of repeating itself.