By Claire Ling Chi Martin There’s a touch of irony setting out from Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition, to traipse across London to Alexandra Palace, for an international exhibition. With a long abandoned, half knitted jumper lurking somewhere in my lounge, and a trail of disastrous sewing enterprises littering my creative heritage, I felt […]
Category: Features
Political & Social connections – UK, China & Hong Kong
Nationhood, individuality and power are explored in a programme of artists’ film screenings taking place in the UK and China this summer, courtesy of UK artists’ film platform videoclub and Hong Kong based video art organisation, Videotage. Both Sides Now explores the differences and political and social connections between the UK and China & Hong […]
The Poverty Line by Stefen Chow and Hui-Yi Lin
The Poverty Line is a collaboration between Stefen Chow and Hui-Yi Lin, which began in China in 2010 and has since expanded to 24 countries across 6 continents. The Poverty Line uses the universal lens of food to examine the choices you would face if you lived at the poverty line. It’s not simply trying […]
China Sail Training Association – Portsmouth
Every year, many of the sail training ships in the world gather together for a series of sailing races. These races have been going on since 1956. They are among the largest sporting events in the world. In 2013, there were 9,000 individual participants and over 6,000,000 spectators visited the ships at the ports, which […]
Bullied teenager gets place at Guildhall of Music
Oliver Lin playing piano at Wycliffe College from Wycliffe College on Vimeo. When bullied teenager Oliver Lin hit his lowest moment it was music – his “only friend” – which would walk him through the next 3 years.. Alone and isolated at school in Taiwan, struggling with grades and weight, the 14-year-old Oliver even considered suicide. […]
Dating Disasters – Blonde Brit Babe in Beijing
Nikki Aaron has been living and working in China for 5 years. Originally from Leicester, pretty blonde Nikki now lives in Beijing and works as a news anchor for a Chinese news network. Having embarked on the adventure of a lifetime in China, she soon found that her dreams of finding ‘the one’ were crippled by […]
GLOBAL VOICES SERIES – Jason Lau of EARS Online
This is part of an on-going series of interviews by Yinsey Wang with East Asian voices around the globe. The series aims to introduce perspectives from different walks of life. “If there is no risk, there’s no opportunity”; Chinese-Canadian Jason Lau certainly stands by his personal slogan. In fact, he had the courage to pack […]
Interview – Dream Corps Co Founder Jun Luo
Dream Corps is a social benefit organization dedicated to promoting reading among children in rural China by opening resourceful libraries and developing reading programs. Through close collaboration with local educators and parents, its aim is to inspire enthusiasm for learning in rural children. Once we decide to work with a school, we invite the school’s […]
Sharing Stories and Being Chinese: Grace Brown of AERIS Magazine and CNC World
Of journalistic pedigree and a woman of ambition, whilst charmingly imbued with a Chinese sensibility, Grace Brown is not your ordinary 25 year old. Having grown up in Hong Kong; worked with corporate giants CNN and Bloomberg; obtained a law degree from the University of Sydney; studied as a transfer student at the University of […]