China is often perceived as a monolith — not just politically, but socially and culturally, too. Nothing could be further from the truth, and SupChina dives deep into China’s diverse and changing society and culture on a daily basis.
The disappearance of Zhang Yingying is the subject of Finding Yingying, a documentary by director Jenny Shi. It chronicles two years in the life of Yingying’s family, from their efforts to find her in the summer of 2017, to the 2019 trial of her abductor and murderer.
How does one tell a story about the COVID-19 pandemic? In his new documentary ‘76 Days,’ set primarily at Wuhan hospitals, director Hao Wu chooses to push back against the prevalent approach in foreign coverage of China, where the gaze is fixed on the government and art falls into a false binary of protest or propaganda.
Cold chicken that is numb, spicy, fragrant, and fresh.
A British gunner’s execution for the “accidental” murder of two Chinese sailors led to Western powers seeking extraterritoriality from the Qing. That’s the popular reading of the Lady Hughes affair, anyway — a narrative that is misleading and wrong.
China's four teams in the 39th edition of Asia's premier soccer tournament are off to a good start. The AFC Champions League was postponed in March due to COVID-19, and is now proceeding under a unique format, with all games played in Qatar.
A county in southwest China has pressed ahead with a dog-walking ban aimed at stopping pet-related injuries and complaints despite widespread criticism that the policy is unnecessarily extreme and badly conceived.
Xu Beihong was a modernizer, believing that artists needed to have ideas and stop relying on imitation. But was Xu as guilty of imitation — of conservative Western art, in his case — as the Chinese artists he criticized?
A pregnant woman maintaining a slender figure is not one of the aspects of motherhood that deserves celebration — this is a lesson that world-famous pianist Láng Lǎng 郎朗 has recently learned.
Turnout among Asian Americans in Georgia was way up in the 2020 presidential election, meaning the Democratic-leaning demographic contributed to Biden’s win in the state. Chinese-American activists are now mobilizing again ahead of the January Senate runoffs.
Last month, the charity MercyHK invited Hong Kong's homeless to a screening of the award-winning movie "I'm Living It," which dramatizes the plight of the Hong Kong's down and out. For many of the attendees, the film was a long-overdue respite from the outside world, albeit a tragic and melodramatic one.