Discover the hard work underlying art as Peng Xiangjie showcases the hardships and meaning behind China’s marginalized circus workers’ labor

After beauty contestants got scolded online for their looks, what could we learn about the changing perception of beauty standards in China?

“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.

In this issue, we explore the notion of work in nowadays China and the uniqueness of work with Chinese characteristics.

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

Minimalist groups thrive on Chinese platform Douban, where hundreds of thousands share their lifestyle and strategies to reduce consumption.

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?

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.

From 国潮 Guochao to the recent phenomenon of nostalgia, a chronicle of the evolving relationship between fashion and “Chineseness".

Nostalgia, more than an individualized feeling, is a social phenomenon. And we are in to explore its various Chinese manifestations.

This month in Artist Profile, we present Li Lihong, a Chinese ceramicist who brings omnipresent nowadays iconography with a dragon’s touch.

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.

Wheat Harvest, a documentary on the lives of sex workers in Beijing, sparked controversy and was banned in China. Why is it still relevant?

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

From "chinoiserie" to "Made in China", Chinese objects inhabit our collective imagination. But what do they really say about nowadays China?

While being alone with yourself on a sleepless night, you access a terrifying yet one of the most intimate experiences.

Recently, solicitation of sex workers became a public issue when a famous pianist and college students were caught doing so.

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.

Sang culture, which centers around defeatism, loss, and pessimism, is gaining popularity on the Chinese Internet. But why so Sang?

China’s birth rate is down in alarming ways, but can women alone solve this issue or does it run deeper and more pervasively?

Fake characters and The Book from the Sky. Contemporary art embodying universal philosophical questions?

Live streaming is hugely popular on the Chinese web, including on gay dating apps. What is it like to live stream on Blued?

Nothing eases someone as much as feeling intimately understood. However, intimacy has flourished in many different contemporary practices.

Slow green trains are disappearing at a high rate. But is Chinese railway network’s modernization such a good news?