Written by Canaan Morse Four years ago, International Poetry Nights Hong Kong commissioned me to translate a packet of song lyrics by Cui Jian, the undisputed godfather and original megastar of Chinese rock ‘n roll. Cui Jian is a bona…
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Written by Freya Aitken-Turff London’s Chinatown has been preparing for the change in Covid19 restrictions that came into place on 12 April. Across England, we are now able to eat outside. This holds the potential to breathe some life into…
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Written by Séagh Kehoe On February 24th, colleagues from the University of Westminster’s Contemporary China Centre (CCC) launched ‘A Zine For Collective Care: Chinese and Southeast Asian Creative Responses to Covid-19’ as part of the University’s Difference Festival. The zine was…
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Written by Meng Li The largest public health campaign in recent years was rolled out in China during the 2020 Spring Festival. On January 23rd, two days before the Lunar New Year, China announced a mandatory lockdown of Wuhan to…
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Written by Ruichen Zhang Visual culture in the People’s Republic of China features a rich collection of propaganda posters. With their unique visual style, language formation, and political messages, these posters are valuable for studying arts, social mobilization, and political…
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Written by Fan Yang Throughout the medical response to Covid19 in the People’s Republic of China, over 50% of doctors and 90% of nurses were women. However, across the rhetoric of “soldiers fighting in the national crisis”, representations of medical…
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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 Sam Phan The language that we use is extremely powerful and can influence the ways in which we perceive reality. Think about those times when immigrants have been intentionally referred to as ‘swarms’ or ‘invasions’, resulting in the…
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Written by Justine Rochot Since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, peoples’ massive recourse to face mask in Eastern Asia, and in China specifically, has led to a widespread belief in a so-called Asian “face mask culture”, regularly opposed to what…
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Written by Alexander Tan Questioning the foundation of socially focused research is a key part of academic training, and over the years many questions have been raised as to what the contribution of those working in this space should be. For…
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