‘Talks Overnight’ probes intellectuals’ anxiety in COVID-era China
Writer-director Su Qiqi describes her deeply personal, black-and-white debut as a “faux-fiction” film.
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How Crocs made a comeback in China this summer
In an otherwise restrained era for Chinese youth, the return of brightly colored, highly customizable rubber clogs allows for both escape and self-expression.
A hedonistic portrait of Old Beijing
British scholar John Blofeld arrived in Beijing in 1934, in his early twenties, seeking aesthetic and sensual pleasures. Nearly three decades later, he wrote "City of Lingering Splendour," recounting an "Old Peking" saturated in the final vestiges of its luxurious imperial past.
Japanese beauty products under scrutiny in China over radioactive wastewater concerns
“I was so disgusted by the news. Even though my action doesn’t matter so much, I personally will not buy anything made in Japan going forward."
The ‘near miracle’ that was China’s first modern treaty with a European state
The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Manchu China and Romanov Russia. It was negotiated in a remote region between two sides that distrusted each other and with deeply different conceptions of both diplomacy and politics — and somehow withstood the test of time.
The Japanese intellectual who inspires Chinese women
Millennials and younger Gen-Zers are having a feminist awakening in post–#MeToo China, despite a conservative backlash and a government increasingly hostile to the movement. Their unlikely hero is a 74-year-old Japanese provocateur.
Michael Yahuda’s ‘Hong Kong’ is one of the few good books about the 1997 handover
A clear-eyed assessment of the run-up to the Hong Kong handover from Britain to the People's Republic of China.
Once banned, Mandarin learning in Indonesia on the rise amid improving ties with China
Indonesia suspended diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China from 1967 to 1990 and restricted Chinese-language lessons and literature. But the two countries now have robust political and commercial connections, and large numbers of young Indonesians are learning Mandarin.
Can queer voices be funny, feminist, and Chinese at the same time? This Vancouver-based troupe thinks so.
For members of UniCome, joking about their queer experiences on the stage is not just for laughs — it also provides a source of healing power and helps foster a queer-friendly dialogue with the audience.