Painter Pan Dehai talks with TWOC about the ’85 New Wave movement and the reception of his cute but satiric political works
Over 30 years after China’s first diagnosed HIV/AIDS case, patients still battle stigma and ignorance
What’s it like battling poverty and being unable to retire as a migrant worker in China today?
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey’s “On the Edge” portrays how China’s rise reshaped the reality of the people living just across the river
How “Mandarin Duck and Butterfly,” a romantic literary movement from early 20th century China, became forgotten in the tides of modernization
Idioms about money for spendthrifts and cheapskates this November 11 shopping festival
The November 11 shopping festival means buying from “sales demons,” paying “IQ taxes,” and getting “grass-planted” by livestreamers
Shanghai Disneyland in lockdown, Lu Xun’s grandson goes viral, famous archaeologist tragically dies, Monkey King spotted getting Covid-19 test—it’s V…
Taiwanese ghost story “Whisper” rummages through the island’s past and present for a local spin on horror, but fails to lend luster to worn-out tropes
Halloween may be a Western import, but ancient Chinese literature is full of spooky beasts, demons, and ghosts to consider this October 31
China’s love of crab-eating stretches back centuries, with literati writing poems and even appointing “crab servants” to cook the delicacy
Domestic media coverage about Wang Yaping, the Chinese space station’s first female astronaut, includes talk of cosmetics and sanitary pads
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