by Joseph Wang | Apr 25, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, News
As history reveals for us, whenever a pandemic transpires, xenophobia is never far behind. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic started in China, there has been a spike in racism towards Asian communities. The offences range from mild inappropriate jokes,...
by Renxiu Zhao | Apr 5, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News
On March 7, 2020, Chinese calligraphy artist Qian Geng and experimental musician Wang Ziheng flew from Beijing to Germany, to launch their European tour. At that time, the coronavirus outbreak in China had been controlled to a certain extent, while the outbreak in...
by SubtropicalAsia | Mar 15, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News
In early January 2020, the new coronavirus Covid-19 broke out in Wuhan and swept through cities across China. With the severity of the epidemic escalating, on January 23rd, the Wuhan government decided to put the city in lock down. And due to this, the artist Ke Ming...
by SubtropicalAsia | Mar 13, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, News
This week, Chinese magazine <People> published an interview with Ai Fen, a Wuhan doctor who was censored and disciplined by hospital authorities for sharing a diagnostic report on WeChat showing a patient with SARS-like pneumonia in late December. The alarm that...
by SubtropicalAsia | Feb 16, 2020 | COVID-19, News
Due to the coronavirus, China’s music industry has also been hit hard. All the live-venues were shut down, performances were cancelled or postponed, band members can’t gather for rehearsal. Meanwhile, music live-streaming is suddenly booming. We...
by SubtropicalAsia | Feb 15, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, News
This is the story of how she found peace from anxiety in this truly extreme situation. “At the end of 2019, I left Shanghai, where I have lived for more than ten years, and returned to my hometown Huanggang, a city not far from Wuhan. At that time, I was seriously ill...
