The story goes that Wang Momo (王卯卯), an undergraduate at the Communication University of China, was doodling on her blog one day and came up with a peculiar yet distinct rabbit-like creature. Built with Snoopy proportions, it also had no …

A sexy fusion of Chinese ethnic elements replete with fashionable reduxs of “minority”costumes,  beautiful stars, designed, in part, to attract Western audiences, Sa Dingding (萨顶顶)’s 2007 album Alive (万物生) is the aural equivalent of the Zhang Ziyi/Chang Cheng seduction scene …

Let the Bullets Fly (让子弹飞, 2010) is an immensely enjoyable, entertaining and engrossing blockbuster, particularly by the standards of mainstream films released on time to catch the action split between the two new year holidays on the solar and lunar …

A photojournalist by trade, Wen Ling (温凌) has an unusual dedication to telling stories through images. In 54boy.com, a short, silent animation laced with Chinese characteristics, we find him more relaxed and more lyrical than in his other works. …

Much has been made of the vigor of the experimental music scene in Beijing, which many observers — myself included — once expected to bridge the gaps between popular music and mass culture on the one hand and fine art …

Look up in the sky it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…. Super Baozi. Yup, the savior of Chinese animation, at least in the eyes of some, is the steamed bun superhero created by Sun Haipeng (孙海鹏). While some of …

While some might equate writing with pulling teeth, Yu Hua (余华), who started his professional life as a dentist at the age of 18, finds it fun. Despite the grim subject matter of his books, he revels in the absurdity …

Most of us don’t associate Game Boys with art. Aside from the profane phrases created when you sent Mario plunging to his death, creatively rarely factored into the experience. Chinese electronic musician Sun Dawei is changing that. For years, as …

As the slogan goes: “Shulong: The comfortable and stylish vintage sneakers from China.” Shulong, or, literally, “comfortable dragon” is the latest entrant in the race to become the first vintage Chinese brand to endear itself to international consumers from Williamsburg …

Though they’ve been around since 1996, Chinese pop/punk/electro outfit New Pants (新裤子) continue to sound fresh and…new, keeping a trouser leg up on the competition by constantly evolving and churning out consistently excellent songs, videos, and live shows. Released in …