Barhopping through Shanghai’s hard-to-find speakeasies
— November 24, 2013Speakeasies are springing up all over Shanghai.
Continue Reading ...Speakeasies are springing up all over Shanghai.
Continue Reading ...The number of Yanbian license plates in the carpark of the Emperor Resort & Casino in North Korea’s remote Rason district leave little doubt as to the hotel’s main clientele.
Continue Reading ...Macau’s $250 million “House of Dancing Water” is famous for magical special effects. But the underwater action you don’t see is even more astounding
Continue Reading ...North Korea isn’t known for its beauty industry, but the isolated state does produce its own beauty brand — Pomhyanggi Cosmetics — and even exports some goods overseas.
Continue Reading ...There’s no room for egos at Shanghai-based island6 gallery, where artists work as a team
Continue Reading ...China could do with an image makeover, judging by the increasingly negative perceptions of the country revealed in a global public opinion poll
Continue Reading ...The London-based dissident novelist talks to Kate Whitehead about the Cultural Revolution, challenging the Party and finding a place to call home
Continue Reading ...Thoughts of North Korea and its citizens’ wardrobes are likely to conjure up images of drab dresses or military uniforms.
Continue Reading ...The secret to enjoying Macau is figuring out which house is best for you
Continue Reading ...The Hong Kong International Literary Festival has had a shake-up – it has a new manager, new faces on the board and a good line-up secured for the festival, which takes place November 1-10.
Continue Reading ...How do Burmese punks keep their mohawks standing tall?
Continue Reading ...Raymond Yang co-founded NGO Just Feel to train schools and families in compassionate communication. He recounts how his violent upbringing inspired him My father moved to Hong Kong from Fujian [in southeast China] in 1976 at the end of the Cultural Revolution, when he was 18. He worked super hard, as a street cleaner, a…
Derek Currie, one of the first Europeans to play professional football in Hong Kong, came to the city in 1970 and quickly became a local celebrity I was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on February 8, 1949. I suppose I was fated to come to the Far East because 1949 was the year Mao Zedong declared…
The 21st edition of Hong Kong Fashion Week wrapped its four-day run late last week
Chan Koonchung satire shows how inequalities of power warp the China-Tibet relationship
The tour bus bounces along one of North Korea’s potholed roads, pop music blasting out over the speakers. It’s a catchy tune and even though none of the tourists can understand the lyrics, a few are tapping their feet to the beat.
The design world can’t seem to get enough of Joyce Wang. Her aesthetics are so familiar yet so strange, coming from neither the future nor the past.