Baby Boom Beijing: Underground Capital Club Culture
Baby Boom Beijing went from a small tattoo shop in the heart of Gulou Dajie to a collaborative club space hosting DJs from all over China... Read More
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BLACK HEAD Saints and Sinners: Accessorizing The Urbanite Personality
For many millennials and Gen Zers, jewelry is a symbol of that all-encompassing and passionate individual temper. Time to accessorize in sin. ... 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
The Lesser-Known Trifecta: China’s Under The Radar Fashion Capitals
Three lesser-known hubs further opening up and reforming China's style scenery. One can Xi everything through fashion.... 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
Cigarettes to Bralettes: China’s Sexual Revolution Through Advertising
Sex sells. From 1930s calendar girls to actress Zhou Dongyu in 2020, Temper explores China's sexual revolutions. Through advertising.... Read More