I’m a commis in a Chinese restaurant kitchen, this is what I do
Cantonese kitchen behind the scenes
This small Penang shophouse is where Dr Sun Yat-sen planned the end of the Chinese empire
Special thanks to the Sun Yat-sen Museum in Penang. The exploits of China's revolutionary first President, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, are legendary. Known as the 'Father of China', he was not only responsible for overthrowing the last Emperor of China and introducing democracy to China (for a while), but he's also one of few people to be
EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was...
Five-Year Planning Outline for Persisting in the Sinification of Islam（2018-2022）
Are We Even Wargaming? - by Manuel L. Quezon III
We have to exercise our imagination even as we "snap back to grid."
In China’s Diaspora, Visions of a Different Homeland | ChinaFile
At the beginning, there were songs. It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving. In the storied New England town, over a hundred of us had gathered for the candlelight vigil. After a fire claimed at least ten
The Foxconn uprising in Zhengzhou - Tempest
Researcher Yige Dong explains the Foxconn iPhone factory uprising in China and its relationship to the broader uprising in China.
This has sparked a new wave of attention on China’s labor politics since the pandemic and provoked some response among overseas Chinese communities, though less prominent for now than the global diaspora mobilization in solidarity with the protester in Beijing’s Sitong Bridge last month. It provides a telling background to the broader social uprising in China sparked by the COVID-19 lockdowns.