by Renxiu Zhao | Mar 18, 2020 | CULTURE&ART
When most people hear the word “monk,” what appears before them is a stereotypical image of a person with a shaved head, isolated from the world in a remote temple living a life of sacrifice and abstinence. A daily ritual that starts well before dawn, invoking washing...
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 18, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, News
Myanmar’s 1970s was a period of dictatorial power, inflation, food shortages, and government corruption. It was absolutely a difficult time for youth to be themselves. Then the photo studio became an oasis. Girls and boys would come into the studio and take pictures...
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...
by SubtropicalAsia | Jan 31, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, News
My name is Wang Qiming. I’m 31 years old. I‘m an independent film director. I am a native of Wuhan. But I work and live in Beijing most time. Today Wuhan and the whole Hubei Province are filled with a strong sense of fear. Since the closure of the city on...
