Qixi Festival Seduces Luxury Label Lovers: They Want Your Red Romance
Qixi Festival (七夕 in Chinese) sees global luxury brands tap into the lust or love for some label swag with "twisted" capsule collections.... Read More
China Urban Culture
Shinobi of Sonic: Tianjin’s NinjaBlade is a Master at the Art of Sound
Under the alias NinjaBlade, Yagyu Ranzou manipulates various musical genres to create artistic club anthems. Fact. Check!... Read More
Beijing’s Loooooooooongish Cat: Set to Bring Forth Our Demise One Gig At a Time
Combining techno beats, glitch’d samples, and live cassette manipulation, this Beijing DJ creates tracks that are tastefully peculiar.... Read More
The Power of Chinese Manufacturing: XUELI Takes Guochao To The Next Level
China's XUELI womenswear brand launches its CU series, a TCM x tech showcase of new guochao trends among the pioneers of China's New Youth.... Read More
Beijing’s Big Thunder – Sonic Confessionals and Shades of Contemplation
Beijing grunge band Big Thunder creates music that expresses human emotion and sentiments about society and its underbelly. Fact. Check!... Read More
Take Five: Yǒuyǒumen! From the Web Into the Wild, It’s Slang Time
友友们 (yǒuyǒumen| "friends"), here we go! Following 520, we bring you five Chinese slang terms still making the rounds in 2021. 520? Yes, 520 (wŭ èr líng). May 20... Read More
Born to Be Wild: Heavy Metal, Fashion and Individualism in China
Fashion, an essential element in the heavy metal scene since first shaking western musical norms in the late 1970s and China a decade later.... Read More