Shrinking Sizes of China’s Womenswear: Time to Size Up the Phenomenon
An obsession with being petite and no uniform size standards: Chinese women squeeze into shrinking sizes smaller than children's clothing... Read More
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Short ‘n Sweet: The Latest Buzz Among China’s Cool Girls
From challenging societal beauty standards to a penchant for low-maintenance hairstyles... The buzz cut is buzzing among China's cool girls... 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
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
The Temper Fact Checker for MANkind: STAFFONLY Studio Goes Rambonkers
STAFFONLY rolls materials and color choices into an ironic and provocative take on male mode mayhem(lines) enhanced by functional and sculpted silhouettes.... Read More
China’s Drag Queens. Fashion That Is Non-Binary Identification
Homosexuality in China was decriminalized in 1997 and in 2001 removed from the government’s list of mental disorders. Though perhaps not entirely overlapping, this in turn has propelled China’s drag scene to evolve relatively quickly. The world of drag may be in its comparative infancy here, yet despite ongoing media and censorship issues this doesn’t seem to stop the rhetoric in China surrounding its rise.... Read More