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
A former Kunqu opera performer describes working in a disappearing art
A mysterious and unique carving of female genitalia in a Buddhist grotto has served as a place of worship for centuries
Famous musician detained for soliciting prostitute, four dead in Shenyang gas explosion, “love psychology” lecture oversubscribed, Beijing Covid-19 o…
How will China save its vanishing local operas?
Miner-poet Chen Nianxi tells the harrowing story of his years working as a blaster underground
Gong Li’s yarn of empowered female espionage in war-torn Shanghai aimed big at the Chinese box office, but confuses complexity for entertainment
Centuries before Chanel and Hermès became status symbols, ancient Chinese could tell a person’s rank from the bag they carried
How the Zhu clan became one of the richest and most powerful families in all Yunnan from their business base in Jianshui
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