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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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
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
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.
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?
Caterina Paiva
From Passenger to Pasajero: When ambiguity in language translates a new eye into Shanghai
Shanghai is the vessel by which one travels the journey that Shanghai proposes, one into China's economic and technological development.
Caterina Paiva
Mao keeping track of the God of Fortune, or how Mao Zedong's iconography made space into fortune
Mao’s iconography might be the most used image to represent the PRC. But what about PRC’s fortune 运?
Isa Cheng
Portraits of Shanghai ayis: an immersion in the life of middle-aged women
Where can you find ayi on the streets of Shanghai? The park? The wet market? Take a deep dive into middle-age women lifestyles!
Beatrice Tamagno
From Dongbei ayis to Supreme: A visual history of China's most (in)famous floral pattern
Winter is coming, and so are padded coats. The time when your around-the-block ayi takes a morning walk in her floral PJs is back!
Caterina Paiva
Macau and its contrasts: Visualized by an inhabitant standpoint
Macau is the only place in China where casino gambling is legal. How did a gambling economy shape the change of landscapes in Macau?
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