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Have you ever noticed how large of an impact “numbers” have on our daily lives? We rely on numbers for the simplest of activities such as reading the time on the clock, to vast, complex mathematical algorithms which have...

Ah, numbers and superstitions. An area we are familiar with, although you might not think about it on any sort of analytical level. With the slightest spotlight, it doesn’t make much sense; why do many Western cultures consider 13 unlucky...

This correspondent’s dear spouse has a favourite expression; (我给你讲过了一百八十遍你知道), meaning, “I’ve told you, like, a hundred times already, you know” (in the Chinese version, the number is actually “180”, presumably because we have to get the number “8” in...

The Artist makes ceramic tea pots, but he drinks coffee. He makes espresso mugs and a soap dish for his new apartment. He makes an ashtray and then quits smoking before he’s fired it in the kiln. She asks...

Historically speaking, in certain countries such as China, both mathematics and law were crucial in forming the political elite. During the Ming Dynasty (from the 14th to 17th century), to pass the imperial examination and access the state bureaucracy,...

In what was previously the Shanghai Chunming Woollen Mill that is now the Shanghai M50 art district, you will find a man who throws and rocks and mud at a piece of canvas and calls it art. Wang Lushan is...

He Qun (何群) was a multi-award winning and respected Fifth Generation film director known for delivering truth in cinema, and for taking eight takes to get it right, earning himself the nickname, He Eight. Born in Nanjing on 7 December,...

I am a contrarian. All of this unpopular opining of mine may look like critical thinking, heroic truth-seeking.  But don’t be fooled; it’s just knee-jerk doggerel.  My world-view is permanently controlled by the assumption that “those millions of people talking around me...