Party on: After a three-month Covid break, Beijing authorities allowed club nights at selected locations last weekend. At the iWork Science and Innovation Park, hundreds of young people came together to party – cigarette breaks outside the entrance included.
Fire alarm in the Forbidden City – but only a drill. Under a bright blue sky, the Beijing fire department deploys for an operational drill in the palace complex.
Finally enjoying some delicious hotpot in a restaurant again, even if it’s only with your own stuffed animal. After two weeks of zero-Covid lockdown in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan and stronghold of spicy cuisine, restrictions have finally been relaxed and restaurants are open once again. Citizens immediately seized the opportunity.
The lotus flower is part and parcel of the China cliché. In fact, they can be found in large numbers – and here in Anlong, a county in the southwest of Guizhou province, they have overgrown the entire lake. Just like in the famous arithmetic problem that can be used to illustrate the effect of the exponential […]
Is communism atheistic? In principle, yes, but in China, the state grants freedom of religion, at least formally. That makes such arrangements of symbols possible: the red flag with star flutters proudly in front of this Catholic church. In the Communist state, of course, it’s clear who ultimately has the upper hand.
While Beijing celebrated the CCP’s birthday, demonstrators gathered in New Delhi in front of the Chinese embassy to protest against the tyranny in Tibet. The Tibetan Youth Congress protested that the human rights situation continues to deteriorate. When young people started tearing up Chinese flags, police intervened and detained them on a bus.
A sea of red flags instead of demonstrations in Hong Kong: A year ago there were civil protests – this year a Beijing patriot is waving the flag of the People’s Republic. On July 1, the Special Administrative Region also commemorates the handover of the former British Crown Colony to China.
Ke Ai (可爱), “cute”, trumps in China – also when it comes to safety accessories. This employee presents a new helmet in comic design at the International Bicycle Fair in Shanghai. Does the horn on the top provide additional protection on impact?
Produce Pandas is the name of the first plus-size boy band from China. Their five members bring a new wind into the industry by visually setting themselves apart from the beauty ideal of previous boy bands. Instead of looking like “little fresh meat” – as the willowy, light-skinned young men in the film and music […]