From Cannes to Berlin, Chinese-language films have become festival powerhouses. Beyond the red carpet, they expose censorship, inequality and shifting identities while reshaping China’s global image.
Yi Li takes a glimpse at the Sino-Burmese cultural space, and a communal effort to revive Chinese language and culture, more than half a century ago at the heart of Yangon Chinatown.
John Gittings finds challenging work in the current exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the M+ art museum in Hong Kong.
John Gittings reviews ‘Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China’, a new exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum.
John Gittings reviews Hong Kong’s Palace Museum and M+, the “Museum of Visual Culture”.
A PhD project by Lea Hasenzahl seeks to examine and assess “the public discourse around Chinese Outbound Tourism in Switzerland”.
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.
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.
Dr Rossella Ferrari discusses the global pandemic’s disruptive effect on transnational Chinese theatre and its adaptation from physical to digital settings.