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Also: Visual Media educator at University of Bolton, Hangzhou. Curator of No Talking Head, a non-fiction short video newsletter.
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It's the gig economy set to the tempo of an unforgiving algorithm - with crashes, sprains and even death on the road.
The ASF epidemic offers a rare window into understanding China’s fragmented, underdeveloped agriculture sector, and how it can have a major impact on the global trade system into which it’s now deeply integrated. For our latest episode of Because China, Quartz takes viewers inside one of the largest Chinese pig farms devastated by the deadly virus to explain how things went so badly wrong.
I was the field producer of one of the Xinjiang trips.
Divided between two countries, an ethnic minority finds unity through reggae.
This 5-part documentary tells the human stories behind the rapidly changing trade, commerce, and investment climate between China and Africa. Through the stories, you can see how the “Made in China” label has evolved as Chinese companies develop products designed for Africans and made in Africa.
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This year, the fiftieth anniversary of the start of one of China's most tumultuous periods, the government is urging everyone to "look to the future" — these seven people can't.
Muscatine, Iowa, with its four Chinese restaurants, connection with Mark Twain, and scenic river view, is not exactly the place you’d expect to become a hub of Chinese culture for the Midwest — but that’s just what it’s trying to do.
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BEIJING - Something strange happened at the end of Zhou Mingying's first day working as an in-house videographer at a high-end restaurant in Chongqing City, Southwest China. At 10 p.m., he was asked to join a group meeting to "share his opinions" about his new company.
It's the telenovela a housecleaner watches during her long commute, an arcade where a teenage girl dances after school, an airport employee's standby flight to a country he's never seen. Residents of three of the most populous cities in the world - São Paulo, Shanghai, and Los Angeles - share where, and how, they get away.
(Photo by Jessica Chou) Ken Roh moved to the United States from South Korea 43 years ago. Now, he’s running a pro–North Korea website, the most visible of a small group of Pyongyang’s devotees in the U.S. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/beimengfu/meet-north-koreas-number-one-fan-in-the-united-states