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SHUO Is The Chinese Street Artist We Need — And One You Need To Know

By Megan Pan August 8, 2017 9:00 am   Comments: 2

SHUO - Xi Jinping featured image
SHUO says he’s one of only two people in all of China making this kind of stencil art. “First, [people] just don’t have the awareness. Second, they don’t know what this is”   This piece originally appeared on the China digital media platform Radii, and this edited version is republished here with permission. It’s the kind of... Read more »

Tags: Art, Feature

In Beijing, 20 Million People Pretend to Live :: 在北京,有2000万人假装在生活 (full translation)

By Megan Pan July 27, 2017 2:09 am   Comments: 11

In Beijing, 20 Million People Pretend to Live
The full English translation of a controversial, widely read, now-deleted July 23 essay from writer Zhang Wumao about the struggle of living in Beijing.

Tags: Essay, Feature, Translation

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