Chinese Apps For Daily Life
Chinese iPhone apps to hail taxis, stream music, movies, and TV shows for free, and find your way around town. It's the attack of the killer apps...
View Article[My Weekender]: Fang Zhou
Freelance photographer Fang Zhou on living and shooting in Beijing. Plus a few restaurant recommendations because that's what this is right here, you know...
View Article[Made in China]: The Naked Guy
Grant Horsfield turned a few dilapidated farmhouses into one of the most popular destinations in Moganshan. He shared a few secrets of his success.
View ArticleSix White Guys Walk Into A Bar: A Beijing Comedy Roundtable
Six comedians doused in 40rmb champagne. Here's a big discussion on doing comedy in Beijing, ahead of the big show down at Cheers on Saturday.
View ArticleOnline And Offline With Wooozy.cn
Talking with the dudes behind Chinese music website Wooozy.cn about the Chinese interwebs, media, club culture, music promotion and records.
View Article[The FAQ]: Chinese Valentines Day
Some advice about handling Chinese V-Day, meeting your boyfriend/girlfriend's parents, and cultural taboos to avoid.
View ArticleInterview: Bob Blunt
Blunt on Blunt: the novelist speaks about the year his hair fell out ahead of his book launch on Thursday at The Bookworm...
View Article[Culture Bureau]: Christiaan Virant, FM3
Talking history with the co-inventor of the Buddha Machine ahead of the next step in his band's evolution, which starts this weekend...
View ArticleInterview: Kira Leinonen, The New Masters
Key crew member on the new kungfu-meets-MMA doc about how to make it as a principled, passionate, independent film producer in China...
View Article[Beijing Bytes]: Three Tech Items for February
Things to buy, places to go, butts to kiss. Here's a few tech tid-bits around town this February in BJ, before we all power down for the holidays.
View Article[Culture Bureau]: Dashan
The man. The myth. The mountain. Culture Bureau returns with a big chat with Mark Rowswell AKA "Dashan". Overnight national fame to a new life in stand-up.
View Article[Communities]: Alcoholics Anonymous
Quick primer on AA: what it is, how it works, and where to find it in Beijing. Bottom line: It's help, and it's there if you need it...
View Article[The FAQ]: Chinese New Year
Celebrate Chinese New Year like a pro. All the basic stuff you need to know before you ring in the Year of the Ram next week.
View Article[Beijing Bytes]: March Tech/Nerdiness Roundup
Beijing digital and tech events in March -- some meet-ups, some dress-ups, some... TED-ups. Oh, and the big literary festival thing.
View ArticleThe Tao of the Tao: A Chat with Lit Fest Coordinator Anthony Tao
On the eve of the Lit Fest, heady matters of poetry, literature, academics, and blogging with Antony Tao. Edifying times, my friends...
View Article[DIY Diary]: Erica Huang, Farm to Neighbors
Founder of the Gulou farmers market talks about the challenges of eating organic + the challenges of building a business from scratch
View Article[Beijing Bytes]: April Cats, Startups, and 3D Unity
Your next month in events for dweebs. Here's the tech stuff going on around Beijing for April. Cats! 3D games! Startup conferences!
View ArticleSmBJ Guide to Easter 2015
Hotel brunches, seasonal film screenings, inappropriate club nights, and — if you're a purist — Church services in BJ this Sunday
View ArticleEvent Preview: The Shuangjing Showdown
Morrrrtal Koombaaat! A few fighter profiles and a preview of this Saturday's Shuangjing Showdown, a boxing/Muy Thai card in Shuangjing.
View ArticleFive Takeaways from GMIC, Asia's Largest Mobile Conference
Adventures in sending Kendra to random massive conferences on a press pass. Here's five critical, key, choice takeaways from this year's GMIC.
View Article