The Work behind the Jump: Looking beyond the circus veil with Peng Xiangjie 彭祥杰
Discover the hard work underlying art as Peng Xiangjie showcases the hardships and meaning behind China’s marginalized circus workers’ labor
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Federica Giampaolo
Miss Shaanxi and changing beauty standards in China
After beauty contestants got scolded online for their looks, what could we learn about the changing perception of beauty standards in China?
Amarsanaa Battulga
A Love Letter to Labor: Nice View and New Mainstream Film
“As long as we work hard, nothing is impossible.” Wen Muye’s new film sends a jaded message with a mix of entertainment and didacticism.
Will Vagari
Editorial – Work
In this issue, we explore the notion of work in nowadays China and the uniqueness of work with Chinese characteristics.
Caterina Paiva
A Way of the Ink 水墨之道?
A contemporary Daoist understanding of ink art. That’s how curator and scholar Yan Zhou defines his “Way of the Ink.” But what does it imply
Beatrice Tamagno
Tired of consumerism: meet the minimalist Chinese youth
Minimalist groups thrive on Chinese platform Douban, where hundreds of thousands share their lifestyle and strategies to reduce consumption.
Gustavo Fiorello
Memories by the bus stop
If you went back in time and met yourself from when you first came to China, would you tell yourself what this country has coming for you?
Chunxiao
Fading Memories of New Year’s Eve: Spring Festival Gala Skits
Skits are a big part of Chinese people’s collective memory of NYE. But lately their humorous quality gave way to a more political purpose.
Beatrice Tamagno
From National Pride to Nostalgia: What Makes Chinese Fashion “Chinese”?
From 国潮 Guochao to the recent phenomenon of nostalgia, a chronicle of the evolving relationship between fashion and “Chineseness".
Caterina Paiva
Editorial - Feeling nostalgic for the good old days?
Nostalgia, more than an individualized feeling, is a social phenomenon. And we are in to explore its various Chinese manifestations.
Caterina Paiva
Li Lihong’s golden McDonalds: Artist profile
This month in Artist Profile, we present Li Lihong, a Chinese ceramicist who brings omnipresent nowadays iconography with a dragon’s touch.
Beatrice Tamagno
Not knowing your flatmates: loneliness in urban China
I knew I would probably never see my flatmates’ rooms, so from the day I moved in, I started to silently gather information about them.
Beatrice Tamagno
Raw documentary sheds light on the lives of sex workers in China
Wheat Harvest, a documentary on the lives of sex workers in Beijing, sparked controversy and was banned in China. Why is it still relevant?
Gustavo Fiorello
Hello from the other side: the meteoric rise of mobile phones in China
A history of phones from the communist era, when they were a rare luxury, to contemporary China, where they became a basic need for survival
Beatrice Tamagno
Editorial - all things Chinese
From "chinoiserie" to "Made in China", Chinese objects inhabit our collective imagination. But what do they really say about nowadays China?
Luis Matte Diaz
The intimacy of the owls
While being alone with yourself on a sleepless night, you access a terrifying yet one of the most intimate experiences.
Chunxiao
When soliciting sex workers becomes a hot topic on the Chinese Internet
Recently, solicitation of sex workers became a public issue when a famous pianist and college students were caught doing so.
Amarsanaa Battulga
Film review: B for Busy (2021): Made in Shanghai, in Shanghainese, for everyone
The Battle at Lake Changjin may have been the Chinese film of the year, but for Shanghai moviegoers, B for Busy has stolen its thunder.
Lorena Voroneanu
Why so Sang? Pessimism in Chinese youth culture
Sang culture, which centers around defeatism, loss, and pessimism, is gaining popularity on the Chinese Internet. But why so Sang?
Carla Viveiros
Is women’s well-being the key to solve China’s population crisis?
China’s birth rate is down in alarming ways, but can women alone solve this issue or does it run deeper and more pervasively?
Caterina Paiva
Oh no, another article about Xu Bing. And the a-cultural beauty of linguistic mastery
Fake characters and The Book from the Sky. Contemporary art embodying universal philosophical questions?
Beatrice Tamagno
Selling virtual intimacy: Live streaming on the biggest Chinese gay dating app
Live streaming is hugely popular on the Chinese web, including on gay dating apps. What is it like to live stream on Blued?
Caterina Paiva
Editorial - Intimately Speaking
Nothing eases someone as much as feeling intimately understood. However, intimacy has flourished in many different contemporary practices.
Will Vagari
The end of slow green trains: a gaze into the social impact of China's modernization
Slow green trains are disappearing at a high rate. But is Chinese railway network’s modernization such a good news?
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