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
Gender
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
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