This week’s photo theme is Unsung Heroes of Kung Fu — we’re shouting out lesser-known legends of kung fu cinema to expand your mind beyond Jackie, Jet, and Bruce.. There’s no better way to kick this ...

Louis Cha (known by the pen name Jin Yong), a legendary writer reknowned for his work in the historical wuxia genre of kung fu heroes, has passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 94.. Though relatively ...

But nonetheless, petty irritations abound. Imagine being asked a hundred times a day why your hair is yellow, or that you need to stop drinking cold water because it’s bad for your health, or that the ...

Every June, students in their final year of high school in China sit for the notoriously difficult National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), known more commonly as ‘the gaokao.’This year’s exams ...

Allow us to introduce you once again to Novel Fergus — a hip hop poet riding the waves all the way from Hong Kong. A few weeks ago he helped us break down the poetry of Cantonese, and now he’s back as ...

To be honest, my personal experience with Halloween is limited, and not quite typical — my only direct experience with the holiday came when I was working in Washington, D.C., and got to trick or ...

So, how is the show formerly known as Idol Producer grappling with the new idol-phobic censorship environment?. At a press conference held to launch the new season, the show’s chief producer Jiang Bin ...

The incident has sparked outrage nationwide, and a related hashtag on the microblogging platform Weibo has amassed more than 1.1 billion views at the time of writing.. Users have flooded the comments ...

On May 27, Chinese actress Qi Wei made a joyous announcement to her 48 million followers on Weibo: Qi and her Korean American husband Li Chengxuan (aka Nathan Lee) are expecting their second child.

The son of a government official, Qian Xuesen was born in Hangzhou in 1911. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1934 and at the age of 23 traveled to the ...

Japanese anti-aging skincare brand SK-II has once again impressed and inspired Chinese audiences with its new ad, “The Expiry Date.” In it, different women confront the societal pressures of marrying ...

On our September episode of SoundCheck, Wes Chen, host of hip hop podcast thePark, and Bryan Grogan, talk about some of their favorite tracks from the month, by the likes of Wang Yitai, Sunset ...