Written by Séagh Kehoe Outcry and Whisper, which had its world premier earlier this year at the prestigious Visions du Reel International Film Festival, is an important and engaging new documentary film by Huang Wenhai, Zeng Jinyan, and Trish McAdam…
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Written by Jian Xu and Elaine Jeffreys The Covid-19 pandemic provides a remarkable context and compelling case for thinking about celebrity politics in China. International celebrities have played an important role in poverty alleviation and disaster-relief efforts historically. Yet celebrity…
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Written by Lisheng Zhang The first item visitors see in the Jianchuan Museum Complex (JMC), China’s largest non-state museum, is a red gantry crane. In its overwhelming immensity, the 20-by-12-metre steel structure, acquired from a city stricken during the 2008…
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