An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
An Intersectional Journal Focusing on Asian Influences in Contemporary Cultures
selected content
Jigsaw Puzzles
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In her film Under the Ashes of the Mekong (Sous les Cendres du Mekong), Emeline Courcier recalls the memory of a missing relative, bringing to light the unspoken and the traumas that haunt French Asian diasporic communities. In this essay, she continues her exploration of these identities that seem to be put together like pieces of a puzzle.
MOTH
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The photographer Ina Jiang invites us to a poetic journey through the labyrinth of her cosmopolitan journey.
A Letter from a Voyager
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A letter from the editor describing her journey to Ying Xiang.
A Journey Along the Fine Strands
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Paris-based Swiss hair stylist Olivier Schawalder reflects on his transformative years in Japan, where as a gaijin “outsider” his passage to fashion insider began.
Looking into People’s Eyes
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Whiskey Chow is a performance artist and drag king for whom imagination is a form of activism, who tries to offer somewhere for people who think they belong to nowhere.
Fashion and Race in the Spotlight
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London-based fashion journalist and editor Priya Elan discusses race, diversity and representation in fashion.
A “Vaguely Asian” Clothing Enterprise
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CFGNY (Concept Foreign Gaments New York / Cute Fucking Gay New York) is a collective fashion enterprise based out of New York City, started by artists Tin Nguyen and Daniel Chew in 2016, and later joined by Kirsten Kilponen and Ten Izu in 2020. The project weaves diasporic experience and networks of production into conceptual collections that straddle art and industry.
Staging the Orient
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Professor Homay King discusses the social implications of Orientalism in cinema, the cultural construction of an East Asian imaginary, and present day negotiations of representation.
Killer Apps and No Emails: A Few Comments About the Chinese Internet
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We invited French game designer Corentin Raux, China-born Australia-based software engineer Jinzhe Li 李琎喆, and Ying Xiang's editor Yueshu Jian 见悦书 to compare key aspects of China’s internet and app ecosystems.
Clothing as Vessel
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Artist Bruno Zhu talks shop, reflecting on a year of personal revelations in 2020, navigating identity, clothing as a vessel for failure, and essential/nonessential languages.
Reputation Meets Opportunity
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Through her extensive experience of China-UK transnational education projects, Dr Cheryl Qiumei Yu 喻秋梅 has had a front row seat in observing how appetites for an international arts and design education reflect changing East-West relations and socioeconomic realities in China and East Asia.
Re-examining Shanghai Calendar Girls
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Calendar posters in China’s Republican era transformed the visual sphere of modern experience through an evolution in the representation of the female figure.
Introducing and Curating Fashion in China
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Pooky Lee shares his approach to communicating fashion in today’s China, shedding light on the actual status of an industry heavily dependent on celebrity culture, and his own predilection for a conversation beyond commerce.
An Archeology of the White Gaze
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With Hong Kong as a background, Lau Wai 劉衛 reappropriates clichés of the film industry in order to make visible the strategies developed to feed the white gaze.
Luo Yang’s Self-Reliant Youths
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In her photographic series, Luo Yang 罗洋 intimately depicts the everyday of China’s Generation Z, placing subcultural defiance of imposed expectations and stereotypes in the foreground, through changing bodies fixed in time.
East Meets West in Chinese Fashion Culture
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Ou Na 欧娜 unpacks a century of Chinese fashion through four emblematic moments.
Bulletins
Graduate DesignLive is being launched by Lu Junyi Design Live in 2021 after years of celebrating and showcasing the work of young Chinese design graduates flooding into the creative world.
A bilingual book about the history and context of institutional white supremacy in the Japanese design industry
A new documentary presents Japan’s most famous women’s volleyball team
"----------////----" is the first gallery solo exhibition of Lau Wai in Hong Kong.
Art Fashion Exhibition UK
CFGNY presents “Collecting Dissonance” at Auto Italia
Auto Italia presents Collecting Dissonance, a newly commissioned exhibition of sculpture, image and garment works by the New York collective and label CFGNY.
Art Culture Pandemic Internet Hong Kong
Launch of an online archive about Hong Kong art ecology
Launch of the website and the independent publication entitled Things will Work out Tomorrow, in which 59 artists and collectives are reacting to the mutations of Hong Kong art ecology.
Art Exhibition UK Ecology
Zadie Xa’s exhibition at the Leeds Art Gallery
Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers at Leeds Art Gallery marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK.