Rowena Hawkins recounts her childhood in 1960s colonial Singapore in My Father is Police, Lah!, tracing family life, class, ...

Drawing on remarkable true stories, Peter Chan delivers a moving drama about child abduction in China. Huang Bo stars as a father whose young son disappears in the streets of a big city. He sets out ...

In the summer of 1993, timid and shy Zhou Xiao Zhi meets her table partner. Sitting in the classroom’s infamous back row is troublemaker Lin Yi. They go through junior high, high school, and college ...

Chinese society expects all men and women to adapt to a system known as “family”. When a wife discovers her husband with another man, her only refuge seems to be in the doctrines of a cult.

Traditional Chinese music, with its origins tracing back to the Neolithic age, represents a fundamental aspect of Chinese culture. Unlike Western music which often focuses on harmony and counterpoint, ...

The Hidden World of Shenzhen’s Streets in Lijia Zhang’s Lotus Lijia Zhang’s novel Lotus delves into the life of a young woman navigating the complexities of modern China, drawing inspiration from the ...

Fight Against Invisible Violence: Li Xinmo the Artist, Critic, Feminist, Theorist & Researcher that is Breaking the Chains Li Xinmo is a feminist artist, art critic, and teacher. She graduated from ...

“A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War”, published by Blacksmith Books uncovers the poignant story of Melville Jacoby, an American journalist whose untimely death at 25 belied ...

John Mackay is a Scottish doctor who moved to Hong Kong in 1963. He practiced medicine there for several decades, becoming a respected physician in the city. Mackay’s memoir, “A Doctor’s Life in Hong ...

Hasu August is a writer and photographer born in 1968. She studied photography in Japan and management science in the United States. After working in multinational corporations for over two decades, ...

The White lotus (Bailian Jiao, 白莲教) was a Buddhist political and religious movement that believed in a universal female divinity, the “Unborn Old Mother” who would gather all of her children towards ...

According to the mythological origins reported by the affiliate Kelvin Bechkam Chow, the sect originated during the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722). Other studies report the 60s of the eighteenth ...