Category Archives: Music, Books and Art

Satan Lucky’s Floating World

Posted on 2013-08-29 by Alexander Ye

Satan Lucky is the pen name of cartoonist and illustrator based in Beijing. He publishes some of his work on Weibo. His style is based on Ukiyo-e — literally “pictures of the floating world”, the traditional Japanese style of woodblock prints and paintings … Continue reading →

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Out of Tibet

Posted on 2012-11-12 by Alec Ash

Now readable in full on Danwei, and with a new update from the author two years on, “Out of Tibet” by Alec Ash is a chapter in the new book Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, edited by Angilee … Continue reading →

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Everything under heaven is in chaos: China’s digital publishing market

Posted on 2012-09-27 by Laurence Harris

by Laurence Harris on September 27, 2012 Digital publishing has been around since the early days of the Internet in China: literary websites first appeared in the late 1990s. First accessed via desktop computers, users are now more likely to … Continue reading →

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Gao Xiaosong on America

Posted on 2012-08-28 by Zach Valenta

Gao Xiaosong (高晓松) is a Chinese media personality known for his music, film work, and perhaps most influentially in his role as a judge on China’s Got Talent (中国达人秀) and Super Girls (超级女声). Despite a drunk driving arrest that ended his position as … Continue reading →

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The Chinese-Swahili Dictionary Project

Posted on 2012-07-16 by Laura Desinsa Jackson

Shen Yuning is a lexicographer working on a Chinese-Swahili dictionary.  He is currently studying African languages and cultures at the University of Hamburg and lives in Tanzania.  Completing a comprehensive dictionary can be a tedious task, but Shen sees it … Continue reading →

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Northern Girls: interview with author Sheng Keyi

Posted on 2012-06-07 by Allison Carol Goldman

Qian Xiaohong is a young woman from a village in Hunan who went to the boomtown of Shenzhen in the 1990s in search of work. She is bold and optimistic, if sometimes a little naïve, and has short black hair … Continue reading →

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Han Han the novelist versus Fang Zhouzi the fraud-buster

Posted on 2012-02-01 by Joel Martinsen

It’s been an exciting two weeks on China’s microblog scene. Megablogger, rally racer, and novelist Han Han has been defending himself against science writer Fang Zhouzi’s charges that he didn’t write some of his most famous work. Han Han (韩寒) … Continue reading →

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The Devil pays a nighttime visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu

Posted on 2011-11-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Scholar Christopher G. Rea is the editor of a new book of translations of Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays by Qian Zhongshu. In an article on The China Beat, Rea says Qian “might be called the best Chinese writer you’ve … Continue reading →

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Liu Jing and his comic book history of China

Posted on 2011-11-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Liu Jing (刘京) is a Beijing-born entrepreneur, designer and cartoonist. He recently published Understanding China Through Comics, a book for iPad and Kindle about Chinese history. Below is a brief Q&A with Liu, followed by an excerpt from his new book. … Continue reading →

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Tricycle water calligraphy

Posted on 2011-09-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Water calligraphy is a poetic activity that you can observe in many Chinese parks: Artists use a large brush to write Chinese characters using water instead of ink. Minutes after the characters are written, they disappear. Media Artist Nicholas Hanna … Continue reading →

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