Indanthrene blue is not the first color that comes to mind when people picture the qipao, but it was one of the most-worn hues of 1930s Shanghai. The story runs through the current exhibition at the Shanghai Library’s Huaihai Road branch, “Hai Shang Yi Chuan: Modern Shanghai Dress Fashions in Historical Documents”, which fills the […]
Hashtags related to #becomingchinese and #chinamaxxing have passed 4 billion combined views on TikTok, Instagram and X by the summer of 2026. The phrase owes its start to a 20-second video posted in late 2025 by Zhu Xirui (朱溪瑞), a 22-year-old Chinese-American creator, who listed her “Chinese lifestyle rules”: slippers at the door, hot congee […]
Qixi begins long before the seventh night of the seventh lunar month in the villages around Guangzhou. In Zhucun (珠村), a neighborhood known as “China’s first Qiqiao village,” women have spent generations preparing the ba qiniang offering tables, arranging miniature palaces, embroidered slippers and hand-tied flowers on display stands that can run several meters wide. […]
Fulong New Street (福隆新街) in Macao’s Sao Lourenco parish was built in the late Qing period as a lane of teahouses and shuttered shops, their wooden doors painted the deep red that gave the quarter its old nickname of the Red Window Street. For eight days in August the same lane traded that modern memory […]
A deer is about to walk out of a sixth-century cave and onto a Beijing runway. On September 7, 2026, at 11:50 a.m., designer Liu Weixia (刘伟霞) presents “Desert Mirror Future – Spirit Deer” at Workshop One in the 798 Art Zone, a featured show of the autumn 2026 China Fashion Week, which runs September […]
For audiences in Dakar, the robe on the mannequin is not only a garment — it is a set of rules in silk. Shandong Museum opened “Confucius’ Hometown, Hospitable Shandong: Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Costume Culture” at the Museum of Black Civilizations on July 29, 2026, the first exhibition the Chinese museum has staged in […]
The numbers tell the story: 68 percent of the shots filmed on real locations. The Road to Splendor (花开锦绣), a 36-episode Ming-dynasty drama starring Ding Yuxi (丁禹兮) and Deng Enxi (邓恩熙), premiered on Tencent Video at noon on August 9, 2026, with more than two million pre-bookings, and began airing on Dragon TV on August […]
Why fill a hall with pouches? Because, the curators at Changning’s heritage center argue, a Hebao (荷包) is a history of Chinese life folded into palm size. The show “Jinxiu Hebao” — a survey of fine embroidered pouches — opened on August 1, 2026, and runs free of charge through August 30. Set at the […]
The Nanyueli (南岳里) temple-fair cultural food street in the Nanyue District (南岳区) of Hengyang, Hunan, has been a magnet for evening crowds since early August. On August 10 the 2026 summer folk festival opened its second chapter, “Sun-Drying Gathering: A Market Cooling Season,” reconstructing local midsummer customs such as the old saying “on the sixth […]
Jieyang (揭阳), a walled county seat in eastern Guangdong that local boosters describe as one of the province’s best-preserved ancient cities, has spent this summer playing host to a season-long costume shoot of its own. The Jieyang Daily reported on August 11 that tourists now walk the old streets in wide-sleeved Hanfu while hired photographers […]
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