The Work behind the Jump: Looking beyond the circus veil with Peng Xiangjie 彭祥杰
Discover the hard work underlying art as Peng Xiangjie showcases the hardships and meaning behind China’s marginalized circus workers’ labor
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Caterina Paiva
A Way of the Ink 水墨之道?
A contemporary Daoist understanding of ink art. That’s how curator and scholar Yan Zhou defines his “Way of the Ink.” But what does it imply
Caterina Paiva
Editorial - Feeling nostalgic for the good old days?
Nostalgia, more than an individualized feeling, is a social phenomenon. And we are in to explore its various Chinese manifestations.
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Li Lihong’s golden McDonalds: Artist profile
This month in Artist Profile, we present Li Lihong, a Chinese ceramicist who brings omnipresent nowadays iconography with a dragon’s touch.
Caterina Paiva
Oh no, another article about Xu Bing. And the a-cultural beauty of linguistic mastery
Fake characters and The Book from the Sky. Contemporary art embodying universal philosophical questions?
Caterina Paiva
Editorial - Intimately Speaking
Nothing eases someone as much as feeling intimately understood. However, intimacy has flourished in many different contemporary practices.
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From Passenger to Pasajero: When ambiguity in language translates a new eye into Shanghai
Shanghai is the vessel by which one travels the journey that Shanghai proposes, one into China's economic and technological development.
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Mao keeping track of the God of Fortune, or how Mao Zedong's iconography made space into fortune
Mao’s iconography might be the most used image to represent the PRC. But what about PRC’s fortune 运?
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Artificial “fortune-telling” intelligence and how to never underestimate religious pragmatism
Our Editorial team went to Zhujiajiao 朱家角. Imagine how surprised we were when we found an AI fortune-telling machine?
Caterina Paiva
Shanghai’s migrant ayis: Some of the many problems of being one
Kaixin Guoguo is a Sichuanese migrant ayi working in a top university in Shanghai. However, she doesn’t have a contract.
Caterina Paiva
Macau and its contrasts: Visualized by an inhabitant standpoint
Macau is the only place in China where casino gambling is legal. How did a gambling economy shape the change of landscapes in Macau?
Caterina Paiva
Editorial - Gambling(s) through China
Gambling refers to nothing less than taking a risk in anticipation of gain. But a choice is still attached to the price. This theme seems
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