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Roman Kierst (小罗)

Roman Kierst (小罗)

Roman Kierst is a former staff writer and editor at The World of Chinese. Though previously based in Beijing, his heart belongs to Chengdu, where his own China story began as a high school exchange student in 2006.

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Framing Contrast: Photographer Yan Jiacheng on the Search for Authenticity

The work of Guangzhou-based photographer Yan Jiacheng captures life on the fringes through documentary and conceptual methods

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ARTS

Framing Contrast: Photographer Yan Jiacheng on the Search for Authenticity

The work of Guangzhou-based photographer Yan Jiacheng captures life on the fringes through documentary and conceptual methods

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Grinding for Gold: Inside China’s Game Boosting Economy

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Too Rich: Wealth and Peril in Huang Heshan’s City Dreamscapes

Artist Huang Heshan’s cyberpunk metropolis celebrates and critiques modern urban life, weaving together rich human connections with the looming dangers of modernization

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What Video Games (Don’t) Teach Us About China

Video games mix real-world history and fiction in ways that inform—and perhaps distort—people’s views of China

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Big Belly Business: China’s Latest Corporate Craze

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