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How Blank White Paper Became a Symbol of Dissent in China 

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie November 28, 2022November 28, 2022

Protests are erupting across the country in response to President Xi Jinping’s strict zero-COVID policy.

Posted inNews

China Reprimands 27 Officials for “Tragically Ugly” Illustrations in School Textbook

by Sarah Rose Sharp August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

“The overall style of the illustrations do not conform to the aesthetic tastes of the public,” said the country’s Ministry of Education.

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River in China Dries Up, Revealing 600-Year-Old Buddhist Statues

by Sarah Rose Sharp August 26, 2022August 29, 2022

The Yangtze River’s water levels are receding amid an ongoing heatwave in the country.

Posted inFilm

Different Hong Kong Generations Come Together in Protest Reenactments

by Forrest Cardamenis July 26, 2022July 26, 2022

Blending documentary and reenactment, director Chan Tze-woon compares and contrasts contemporary and historical activist movements.

Posted inNews

Archeologists Uncover the Oldest Ochre Workshop in East Asia

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

Artifacts found at the 40,000-year-old site suggest that powders of different hues and grain sizes were produced there.

Posted inFilm

The Passive, Tech-Obsessed Opening of the Winter Olympics

by Ryan Swen February 13, 2022February 12, 2022

Everything that distinguished director Zhang Yimou’s famed opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics feels either lacking or missing altogether here.

Posted inArt

Two Artists Record the Voices of the Silk Road

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd February 6, 2022February 8, 2022

The Silk Road Songbook’s polyvocal strategies to share diasporic experiences are a radical reversal of what expressions of resistance and persistence are expected to look like.

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It Is Time for International Museums to Sever Ties With China

Avatar photo by Rachel Spence January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

The recent atrocities mean that museums working with Chinese state-run enterprises need to think long and hard about their presence.

Posted inBooks

Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd November 7, 2021November 5, 2021

Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent.

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Hong Kong’s Only Tiananmen Massacre Memorial Faces Removal

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 18, 2021October 18, 2021

There is an official ban against the public mourning of Tiananmen Square victims in Hong Kong and mainland China.

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The Industry and Leisure of the World’s Largest Middle Class

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 16, 2021June 19, 2021

Jessica Kingdon’s new film Ascension documents the factories, etiquette centers, and other contemporary curiosities of China.

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Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China

Avatar photo by Jordan Cronk May 27, 2021May 27, 2021

Hyperallergic interviews Jia about Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue and finding people to testify about their experiences in rural villages over the past seven decades.

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