Photos of Beijing’s CCTV headquarters under construction
The CCTV Headquarters in Beijing is not a traditional tower, but a loop of six horizontal and vertical sections covering 473,000 m2. The building has … Read more
Matteo Damiani
Interview with Alpine Decline: ‘For the Betterment of Well People’
Alpine Decline interview. Alpine Decline is an alternative/noise rock guitar+drums duo (Pauline Mu, Jonathan Zeitlin) based in Beijing since 2010. The band relocated from Los … Read more
Interview with Hao Wu, director of the documentary 76 Days on Wuhan COVID Outbreak
During the outbreak of the pandemic, the director began to think about this project, with the help of two collaborators who had full access to … Read more
Mulan: What Disney’s Movie Teaches Us About Xi Jinping’s China
The failure of the remake of the famous 1990s cartoon highlights several issues hidden under the carpet for too long. In 2015, Disney had the … Read more
Interview with Kyle Fiske, author of ‘Dragons and Boxers’
Kyle Fiske grew up on a farm near the Canadian border in rural northern New York State. He studied history and English at St. Lawrence … Read more
Interview with Ed Shew, author of Chinese Brothers, American Sons
Ed Shew was born in 1949 in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), the son of Chinese parents. His peasant father immigrated from Guangdong province in southern … Read more
Interview with Björn Jerdén, Head of UI’s Asia Programme: Gui Minhai, the Confucius Institutes in Sweden, and the relations between China and Sweden
Björn Jerdén is the Head of The Asia Program of The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Björn Jerdén’s research focuses on the international relations … Read more
Interview with Alice Poon, author of Tales of Ming Courtesans
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Alice Poon steeped herself in Chinese poetry and history, Jin Yong’s martial arts novels, and English Literature in her … Read more
Interview with Badiucao: the worsening of Hong Kong’s situation, #nnevvy, and the tightening of censorship amid the Coronavirus outbreak
Badiucao is a prolific and talented satirical author and human rights activist based in Australia. We discussed with him about the recent wave of arrests … Read more
The #nnevvy story: how a punitive expedition of Chinese trolls on Twitter has turned against the CCP
The controversy against a Thai actor and his girlfriend turned against the Chinese nationalist netizens closest to the CCP while demonstrating the Chinese propaganda machine’s … Read more
Interview with Joshua Wong: the handling of the coronavirus epidemic in Hong Kong
Joshua Wong is a democratic activist and the secretary of Demosisto, a pro-democracy political group in Hong Kong. We interviewed Joshua Wong about China’s handling … Read more
Interview with ‘White Elephant”: Ruyi Lane
The band was formed in the summer of 2014 by Kalieninge and Li Wen in Nanjing, and was originally called “8 Eye Spy”. In the … Read more
Interview with Laurie Dennis, author of The Lacquered Talisman
The Lacquered Talisman follows the story of one of the most influential figures in Chinese history, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. Laurie … Read more
Interview with Guobin Yang: the role of the social media amid the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown
Guobin Yang’s study focuses on online activism, social movements, digital culture, cultural sociology, historical sociology, critical theory, global communication, environmental communication, media, and politics in … Read more