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MONTHLY TOPICS

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GAMBLING

Oct. 2021

Blind box economy: what soft-betting tells us about Chinese Millennials' over-consumption

Macau and its contrasts: Visualized by an inhabitant standpoint

Gambling with Fate for Status and Fire

Online gambling in China - The problems with new trends for old habits

Editorial - Gambling(s) through China

A woman’s place is at the Majiang table

AYIS

Nov. 2021

Shanghai’s migrant ayis: Some of the many problems of being one

Portraits of Shanghai ayis: an immersion in the life of middle-aged women

Dance like no one’s watching? The quarrels with dancing ladies in China

From Dongbei ayis to Supreme: A visual history of China's most (in)famous floral pattern

Getting old with a social role

Fighting ayis on Bilibili: when social inequalities go viral

Ayi Editorial – The multifaceted auntie

SUPERSTITION

Dec. 2021

Chicken soup for the soul: the weird universe of Tiktok wisdom

Do religious ghosts dream of supernatural time travel?

Christian beliefs for modern Chinese minds: how come is this imported religion thriving?

Mao keeping track of the God of Fortune, or how Mao Zedong's iconography made space into fortune

A contemporary need of 道 (Dao)

Between stigma and taboos: the sorrows of being a menstruator in China

Artificial “fortune-telling” intelligence and how to never underestimate religious pragmatism

Editorial - Superstition in the air: belief under the Chinese sky

PASSENGERS

Jan. 2022

The end of slow green trains: a gaze into the social impact of China's modernization

The passengers of their youth

Up in the sky: how did air travel develop in China

Mainland cinema’s journey to the west and back

The night I went to Inner Mongolia

From Passenger to Pasajero: When ambiguity in language translates a new eye into Shanghai

Editorial - Away we go: being a passenger in China

INTIMACY

Feb. 2022

Not knowing your flatmates: loneliness in urban China

The intimacy of the owls

When soliciting sex workers becomes a hot topic on the Chinese Internet

Film review: B for Busy (2021): Made in Shanghai, in Shanghainese, for everyone

Is women’s well-being the key to solve China’s population crisis?

Selling virtual intimacy: Live streaming on the biggest Chinese gay dating app

Editorial - Intimately Speaking

OBJECTS

Mar. 2022

Raw documentary sheds light on the lives of sex workers in China

Hello from the other side: the meteoric rise of mobile phones in China

Editorial - all things Chinese

NOSTALGIA

Apr. 2022

A Way of the Ink 水墨之道?

Memories by the bus stop

Fading Memories of New Year’s Eve: Spring Festival Gala Skits

From National Pride to Nostalgia: What Makes Chinese Fashion “Chinese”?

Editorial - Feeling nostalgic for the good old days?

WORK

Summer 2022

The Work behind the Jump: Looking beyond the circus veil with Peng Xiangjie 彭祥杰

A Love Letter to Labor: Nice View and New Mainstream Film

Editorial – Work