BOOKS
Booklist: A Song for China
A beautifully illustrated book for young readers tackles China’s complicated modern history
ARTS
Seoul Train
China’s booming market for K-pop is inspiring domestic hopefuls to train for a career in the industry
ARTS
Gallery: A Sense of Belongings
Art Factory exhibition “All We Love” mixes technology and nostalgia to ponder the meaning of home
DESIGN
Gallery: Aquatic Art
Exhibit honors Chinese “shrimp painting” tradition through the works of one of its milestone artists
BOOKS
Booklist: An American Bum in China
Matthew Evans’s misguided travels are rife with schadenfreude
BOOKS
Booklist: The Debt Collector
Zhejiang writer Wang Shou tackles confused morality and socioeconomic divides in this new Penguin novella
BOOKS
Genius Loci
Lin Yutang’s biography of Su Dongpo presents a supernaturally complex portrait of the poet
ARTS
Out of the Wild
“Society Guidance” curator Bian Ka sits down with TWOC to discuss art in the 1990s
BOOKS
Booklist: The Transpacific Experiment
Matt Sheehan raises more questions than answers for “how China and California compete for our future”
DESIGN
Gallery: Undersong
Artists Chen Haiyan and Tao Aimin in a cross-media conversation on the secret histories of women
