HaiDiWOW — Hot Pot in Xi’An Adds a Little Fresh Meat… to The Staff
One Xi'an hot pot restaurant recently decided to turn up the heat by adding a side of new, not so little, fresh meat to its surroundings.... Read More
Gender
Using Tantan as a Yáng Niū: An American Woman’s Experience Using a Chinese Dating App
Beijing-based Rochelle Beiersdorfer tells her story of wading through all the zhānáns, wife hunters and xiǎosān seekers on China's equivalent to Tinder: Tantan.... Read More
Close-Up: Hear Her — Hot on the Heels of China’s Female Urbanite
As China's new urban woman is re-writing society's traditional narrative, she is also re-visiting her own consumer values and virtues.... Read More
Robert Wun: Emotional Puzzles. Social Pieces. Gender Politics
Designer Robert Wun attempts to reinvent the fashion industry by challenging the beauty, identity and sexual standards set by and in society.... Read More
The Xander Zhou Universe: A Virtual Immortality of Techno Orientalism
Creativity has all the space it could possibly desire in order to flourish. Xander Zhou's designs lean neither to the East nor the West.... Read More
The Temper Fact Checker: Top of the 2020 Pops — Innocent but Sexy
“Innocent but Sexy"? China’s Gen Z in 2020 saw a new wave of male fashionistas opting for a genderless and dashingly bold dress code.... Read More
Androchine 2.0: China’s Masculinity Through Fresh Meat and Musk Ming
As gender lines blur and China becomes more culturally progressive, the notion of "masculinity," too, is in the throws of a grand makeover.... Read More