China Fashion Icons — Wu Zetian: From Concubine to Courting the World
China Fashion Icons: when fashion met ambition. A look at the manners and modes of the Wu Zetian era. Meanings included.... Read More
Gender
The First Ladies of China: A Close-Up of The Prima Donna Lookbook
The First Ladies of China. Trickling trends are vain. They too shall pass, though your style shall not. A lookbook of the primae inter pares. ... Read More
China’s History of Foot Binding, One Sensitive Style Issue
China's history of foot binding offers a powerful reflection on the cost of attaining beauty standards that cannot be reversed.... Read More
The Temper Top Ten China Fashion Labels Playing the Non-Gender Card
Gender fluidity has been a part of the fashions du jour as far back as Ancient China. Time for the Temper Top Ten genderless labels.... Read More
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
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