by Renxiu Zhao | May 30, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
At the end of 2019, when I was filming a live performance of Gabber Modus Operandi in Jakarta, Indonesia, vocalist Ican Harem took out from his luggage a T-shirt with a vintage drawing – a Chinese dragon entrenched on an ancient Chinese building. Below the image...
by SubtropicalAsia | May 10, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
Recently, the work of Chinese photographer Zhang Jingran in Chengdu caught our attention. The artist who claims ” just to hang around” records the urban landscapes and the vague-looking urbanites which collide within Chinese modern and traditional...
by Tomas Pinheiro and Lucas Tinoco | May 6, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
“I wanted to celebrate outsider music from Asia.” —— Saphy Vong, founder of Chinabot label Saphy Vong is Subtropical Asias’ brother in spirit. Just like us, he tries to connect underrepresented artists to each other and to a wider global...
