Laura Schmitt

Monday 11th November is Single’s Day in China (11/11), hallmarking the pressure on young Chinese to find a suitable partner in the national dating pool. In 2011 the number of singletons in China reached a staggering 180 million, with...

Graffiti scrawled on Nanjing’s City Wall on 9th October, 2013 speaks of the pressure on young Chinese to become property owners. The writing by an unidentified person read, “By the time I am 24 for I must own a...

For the third year in a row, the leading exhibition for cyclists and bike enthusiasts in China, Asia Bike, allowed the public to inspect the newest range of products lined up by the biking industry. On...

Endless traffic jams as early as 8 o´clock in the morning. Driveways full of people dodging the overcrowded walkways. Nearly half a million people visited the Sun-Yat Sen Mausoleum during the National Holidays. This year, just...

Something like a 3-hour trip from tropical Xiamen sit the roundhouses of the Hakka. Declared a UNESCO world cultural heritage site in 2008 due to their unique style and architectural creativity, these houses reached fame due to an amusing...