Despite a sluggish box office, these Chinese films stood out over the Labor Day holiday this May
Seven years after Taiwanese writer Lin Yi-Han’s death, her only novel—based on her real-life story—is finally available in English, recounting a harr…
Since graduating from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2016, Cao Yu has set out to make work that is brazen, subversive, and unflinching, be…
The Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in Xiamen earlier this month, yet the organizers are still struggling …
Beijing-based arts collective Spittoon has partnered with a British publisher to release a stellar anthology, bringing essential contemporary Chinese…
The film market struggled in 2024, but these movies managed to stand out and make their mark
A roundup of 2024’s notable books and translations by Chinese, expat, and diaspora authors
An imaginary Chinese village during the reform and opening up era, with its oft-referenced “Toon Street,” is vividly depicted in a newly translated s…
The latest hit series, “Romance in the Alley,” highlights the evolving roles of women as they navigate the challenges of family, society, and persona…
A look at the recent hits and misses in female-centric cinematic sphere
Once again, she didn’t win the Nobel Prize in Literature—but at this point, her legacy may already be secured
Through wool and raw honesty, needle felt artist Zhang Xian captures the unseen struggles of new mothers while reclaiming her own identity
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