Over Drawn: The Dilemmas Facing China’s Booming Online Comics
China’s wildly popular online comics struggle to reproduce the magic of the 1990s
Healing Strokes: A Gen Z Artist Explores Personal Pain and Historical Trauma
Sonia Jia explores trauma and the still-raw legacy of Japanese occupation on canvas
Total Recap: The Rise of Bite-Sized Cinema
From short summaries to full contextual breakdowns, movie recap videos are diverse, controversial, and wildly popular
Invisible Summit | Review
The story of the first blind Chinese person to summit the world’s highest mountain makes for a compelling documentary
How Women in Small Towns Got a Taste For Gold
Women in China’s lower-tier cities and towns are increasingly buying gold accessories for investment and prestige
How New China’s Movie Industry Began in the Northeast
Changchun Film Studio went from puppet-state propaganda to the beating heart of Chinese film
5 Monster Shows and Films for Hungry Ghost Festival
Ghosts might be restricted on Chinese screens, but there are plenty of monster films to watch this Zhongyuan Festival
Last Encore: The Final Days of an Aging Opera Troupe
How a group of octogenarian opera singers tried to sustain their passion and a loyal community of opera lovers in a southern Chinese city
Beyond Fairytales: 3 “Anti-Romance” Films for Chinese Valentine’s Day
What better time than Qixi, also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, to burst the love bubble through these poignant unromantic movies