Agricultural land is scarce in China – and continues to shrink due to urban expansion. So it is no wonder that every piece of land is also used for agriculture. In the suburban belt of cities, small plots of land for growing vegetables or larger fields of grain can be found next to newly built […]
The 77th Cannes Film Festival comes to an end on Saturday. One conclusion can already be drawn: After pandemic-related breaks and accusations of censorship, Chinese film is back. Veteran star director Jia Zhangke (left) presented his romantic drama “Caught by the Tides,” which captures the changes in China over the past 25 years. Peter Chan’s […]
Donald Duck is celebrating his 90th birthday – even in this shopping mall in Shanghai. Tang Laoya 唐老鸭 – as Donald is called in China – has admittedly not been known here for that long. In 1986, the first episodes with the hot-tempered duck appeared on Chinese state television CCTV – it was an instant […]
Art exhibition at the Chinese cultural center in Suva, the capital of the Fiji Islands: oil paintings in the style of Romanticism depict natural scenes in Xinjiang, home to the country’s Uyghur minority. Such exhibitions are part of a large-scale framing concept of Chinese propaganda. It is intended to evoke positive connotations of Xinjiang instead […]
Has the Star Wars copyright been infringed here? It is probably not that simple. After all, the famous stormtroopers from the popular Star Wars saga could be associated with anything but Zen Buddhism. Maybe Master Yoda. This Zen trooper is currently on display at the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair.
“City of Eternal Spring” – there is a reason why Kunming carries this title. The capital of the south-west Chinese province of Yunnan is located on a plateau and the climate is mild all year round.Flower lovers will get their money’s worth, as there is always a splendor of blossoms to marvel at somewhere. However, […]
China knows how to build bridges. With the longest, highest and most bridges, Chinese engineers have proven this abundantly. Now, however, they are also supposed to be beautiful. Since Tuesday, this elegantly curved structure has connected the two sides of the industrial metropolis of Huizhou over the Dongjiang River. Or is it just the perspective […]
Photographed by the billions – and never fails to amaze: flooded rice terraces against the light. In many regions, rice cultivation is still hard manual work, partly because larger equipment cannot be used on the narrow, winding terraced fields. And so the areas under cultivation, such as here in the village of Shiyuan in the […]
The Haikui No. 1 is China’s first floating production, storage and loading facility in cylindrical form. It left the port of Qingdao over the weekend and made its way to the Pearl River Delta, where it will be deployed in the Liuhua 11-1 oil field at a water depth of 324 meters. The Haikui No. […]
To commemorate “World Book Day”, the Chinese milk tea brand Lelecha 乐乐茶 printed an icon on the cups of their “Smoky Oolong”: Lu Xun, one of China’s most significant writers. However, the marketing campaign backfired. Online users debated that the use of the word “smoky” was disrespectful since Lu Xun had died from the consequences […]