Dear Chinese Friends, You have been lied to. The way you sing the alphabet song is all wrong. After eight years in China, I just found this out. It’s not your fault, and we’re going to remedy the problem right here, right now. Here’s how you’ve been taught to recite the alphabet. Okay, wait — this … More Millions of adult Chinese have learnt the alphabet wrong
Over the past 16 months, Christopher St Cavish has visited 52 restaurants and ordered 7.243kg of the Nanxiang-style soup dumplings known as xiaolongbao at a cost of 712.5RMB. He stood in line at Yu Garden’s Cheng Huang Miao for 43 minutes, ate dumplings just 0.73mm thick at Zun Ke Lai, and exploded an 85.69g orange-sized … More Xiaolongbao Index author Chris St Cavish
Last year, in a small local market on Anshun Road, models strode past toilet plungers and plastic buckets in a catwalk show by artist Ilazki . All of them wore white T-shirts printed with a different Chinese character that includes the radical 女, meaning woman, highlighted in pink. We asked Ilazki about the thinking behind her project and … More Artist Ilazki on the hidden gender of Chinese characters
Colour research is a curious thing. It’s not as if the visual spectrum of light has changed, and yet trend spotters and cool hunters are tasked with finding “new” colours each season. Pantone named Marsala (Pantone 19-1438) its colour of the year in 2015, but how did it arrive at this conclusion, and what use … More Colour mapping for Pantone