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Digital Life’s Necessary Changing State

he increased convenience of new technologies can be taken advantage of, or perhaps worse, utilised for nefarious purposes. Therefore proper policy and regulation is required. While such may not seem a vital tool for our convenience, we shall see...

Eccentric Encounters & Salty Solutions

On the top floor of the flashy Deji Plaza is a recently opened art museum which is showing an exhibition of the “Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou”, a group of artists who flocked to Yangzhou in the 18th century to...

Dali! And Why it’s the Cool Kid of China

“How much is this?” I asked the shop keeper, holding a handmade leather bag. It smelled raw and felt smooth, styled rustically. It brought me back to Chiapas, in the mountains of southern Mexico. A place that, just as...

Preview: Chinese Super League 2018

The Ping’an Chinese Super League (CSL) has returned, and kicked off on 2nd March. This new season brings 15 teams the challenge of dethroning Guangzhou Evergrande, after their winning of seven consecutive titles. Shanghai, Hebei, Tianjin and possibly our...

The Trusty Lotus Root (Even Finds its Way into TCM)

There are two kinds of lotus varieties; one with pink or white flower (Chinese lotus), Nelumbo nuceifera, which is found in Asia and northern Australia; another kind with yellow flowers (American lotus), N. pentapatala, found in the Americas. The existence of lotus...

A Legal Dose of Desire

Everyone has desires, but we often think that desire should be limited and that the law is the last line we can draw in terms of applying it. But what we do not know, and what can surprise us,...

A Different Kind of Cooling this Winter

Scavenging around Nanjing is not unusual in my hunt for contemporary art in this city, but finding something really worthwhile is. From January until March, G.Art has put on a small show that, while perhaps nothing ground breaking for China,...

What’s Cozy Doesn’t Come Easy

Heavy snow has visited most of China recently. With warm AC and a cup of hot coffee, together with the snowy scenery, it is not that hard to get through the day, that is, unless you have to grab...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

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China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

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