I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American architect, passed away on 16 May, at the age of 102. His loss is felt all over the world, but particularly here in the Yangtze River Delta part of China.
While Pei was born in Guangzhou,...
Entertainment television shows in China have experienced profound change over the last 30 years. From the beginning of the 1990s to the present, China's entertainment shows have experienced different stages of development, such as Hong Kong-Taiwan influenced, Europe influenced...
The smell of an apple pie down on the street wafts through the air. Suddenly, the memory that your mum cooked in the kitchen after your school finished surges into your head. Or maybe it’s a whiff of a...
When a nation’s favoured celebrities comprise young men made to look like girls, it is no wonder that many have come to view such “Fresh Meat” (小鲜肉), referring to those young male idols with heavy make up and Korean...
With Nanjing’s sycamore trees shedding their pollen, it would be fair to also say that when expats in Nanjing are asked as to their very first impression of the city, the bulk would say there are so many sycamore...
Recent research into the Chinese female workplace, carried out by Zhilian Employment and UN Women, shows an enhancing in the awareness of gender equality in China, while those born after 1995 are the main force in pushing forward realisations...
A new-found hunger for knowledge among China’s younger generations is driving the success of self-made tutorial video websites, in the process creating a much more YouTube-like, online-video ecosystem, but one with a twist.
Bilibili, originally known as a video website...
Among the more well-known thought experiments is “If you could only save one person…?” In today’s China, however, it is reality TV that is leading way with its new incarnation, “Life ranking; children, parents, spouse or yourself”, as the...