Art is Another Story in Hong Kong
John Gittings finds challenging work in the current exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the M+ art museum in Hong Kong.
1804, 2024
2208, 2023
Who is Madame Song?
John Gittings reviews ‘Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China’, a new exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum.
1611, 2022
Hong Kong’s New Museums: Tradition and Challenge
John Gittings reviews Hong Kong’s Palace Museum and M+, the “Museum of Visual Culture”.
1410, 2022
Chinese Travelers under the “Local Gaze”
A PhD project by Lea Hasenzahl seeks to examine and assess “the public discourse around Chinese Outbound Tourism in Switzerland”.
0705, 2021
Sang culture: how a Russian singer became the hero of young pessimists
Sang celebrates self-deprecation and negative emotions, its followers catapulted an unlikely and unenthusiastic Russian singer to the finale of a Chinese boy band show.
1301, 2021
Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
Professor Rachel Harris discusses her new book on the religious revival which spread through Uyghur communities in Xinjiang in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
1611, 2020
Transnational Chinese Theatres in Pandemic Times
Dr Rossella Ferrari discusses the global pandemic’s disruptive effect on transnational Chinese theatre and its adaptation from physical to digital settings.