Pioneering video artist Cheng Ran interprets passages from Chinese punk novelist Wei Wei’s adaptation of Venus in Furs—the landmark nineteenth-century novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch about a nobleman’s desire to be sexually […]
Pioneering video artist Cheng Ran interprets passages from Chinese punk novelist Wei Wei’s adaptation of Venus in Furs—the landmark nineteenth-century novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch about a nobleman’s desire to be sexually […]
Started as a passion project in 2008, Girls has become a career-making image series from Shanghai-based photographer Luo Yang. Her ongoing work upends stereotypes of Chinese hyper-femininity by capturing an emerging generation […]
Shanghai, China’s biggest city, has the world’s biggest port and the longest underground railway system. The city offers seemingly endless opportunities. This city is a pulsating symbol of China’s rise to a […]
Is this Chinese vehicle a train, or a bus? China just launched the world’s first “autonomous rapid rail transit.” It’s a driverless “train” that doesn’t run on rails. Instead, it uses sensors […]
China has unveiled Foo-Shing, the world’s fastest bullet train. It will travel at up to 350 kilometres per hour, and shave 30 minutes off the journey time from Beijing to Shanghai.
China’s first bicycle path in the air, 7.6 kilometers long, started a trial run Thursday in Xiamen, eastern China’s Fujian Province. According to Xiamen City Public Bicycle Management, the company that operates […]
A pensioner is proving age is no barrier to becoming a catwalk model. 80-year-old Wang Deshun is also a mime artist and actor. Al Jazeera’s Adrian Brown reports from Beijing.
Photographer Luo Yang has been taking photos of young Chinese women since 2007 for her ‘Girls’ series. “They might not be the typical young Chinese girl you see every day,” she says. […]
Weddings in modern middle class China are now big business and little expense is spared when it comes to celebrations.
Having recently turned 27, Li Chenxi has reached the age at which unmarried women in China are labelled ‘sheng nu’ or ‘leftover women’.