Chinese have been the largest asylum seekers in the United States for many years. In 2016, Chinese born people received 22 percent of all the asylum grants offered by the U.S. And this raises an interesting question — why are…
Shanghai-based Yang Fudong is a moving image artist whose works have a poetic, dreamlike feel that focuses on China’s youth.
Li Bifeng, Chinese author, poet, and activist, has been working toward democracy in China for decades, where free speech is not tolerated.
Ravage is a visceral and hard-hitting short film by Peabody Award-winning director Leon Lee and stars human rights advocate, actress, and Canadian beauty pageant titleholder Anastasia Lin.
Split by the State is a short film about a 17-year-old refugee boy living in Australia who becomes hopeful after learning Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will visit China.
Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright born in 1955. Her work is widely successful and studied in schools throughout the United Kingdom. With her verse, she likes to use simple words in complicated ways.
Actor, human-rights activist, and Canadian beauty queen Anastasia Lin is the subject of a new documentary by Canadian director Theresa Kowall-Shipp. Anastasia Lin gained a great deal of media attention after the Chinese-born Canadian was denied entry into China to compete in…
The new Wes Anderson film, Isle of Dogs, is a stop-motion film that follows a boy’s odyssey in search of his dog. The film is set in the future, in Dystopian Japan where dogs have been quarantined on a remote island…
Jason Stack, a single dad raising his three daughters — Adele, 14, Kyralee, 16, and Courtney, 19 — has been awarded this year’s Victorian Father of the Year Award in Australia, 2017. In 2013, three days before Mothers Day ,the three daughters had…
Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger is a film director, animator, and trailblazer for women in the film industry. She was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899 and throughout her life made over 40 films. She also made one of the world’s first animated…
Chinese have been the largest asylum seekers in the United States for many years. In 2016, Chinese born people received 22 percent of all the asylum grants offered by the…
Shanghai-based Yang Fudong is a moving image artist whose works have a poetic, dreamlike feel that focuses on China’s youth.
Li Bifeng, Chinese author, poet, and activist, has been working toward democracy in China for decades, where free speech is not tolerated.
Ravage is a visceral and hard-hitting short film by Peabody Award-winning director Leon Lee and stars human rights advocate, actress, and Canadian beauty pageant titleholder Anastasia Lin.
Split by the State is a short film about a 17-year-old refugee boy living in Australia who becomes hopeful after learning Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will visit China.
Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright born in 1955. Her work is widely successful and studied in schools throughout the United Kingdom. With her verse, she likes to…
Actor, human-rights activist, and Canadian beauty queen Anastasia Lin is the subject of a new documentary by Canadian director Theresa Kowall-Shipp. Anastasia Lin gained a great deal of media attention after the…
The new Wes Anderson film, Isle of Dogs, is a stop-motion film that follows a boy’s odyssey in search of his dog. The film is set in the future, in Dystopian…
Jason Stack, a single dad raising his three daughters — Adele, 14, Kyralee, 16, and Courtney, 19 — has been awarded this year’s Victorian Father of the Year Award in Australia, 2017. In…
Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger is a film director, animator, and trailblazer for women in the film industry. She was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899 and throughout her life made over 40…
Jenny van Sommers is an award-winning still life photographer who grew up in Australia, but is now based in London. Her work often brings to life mundane objects, and she…
The Flying Seagull Project is a collective of clowns, musicians, dancers, play-workers, and play-specialists who work in the harshest of refugee camps across Europe to help the kids laugh, play,…
Chinese kindergarten teacher Gao Chengnu was sent to a Chinese labor camp and tortured. She committed no crime — she was targeted because she practiced Falun Gong.
In this excellent Ted-Ed video that’s just under 6 minutes, Alex Gendler goes into how the genre of Dystopia emerged. He looks at how dystopian novels — such as Gulliver’s Travels, Animal…
Justine Leconte is a French blogger who has an online channel that talks about style and beauty from the perspective of a French woman.
In the Name of Confucius is a gripping documentary by Canadian-based producer, writer, and director Doris Liu. The one hour-long investigative documentary questions “What is the purpose and political influence…
Alex NG is a Hong Kong-based photographer born in the ’60s. He studied journalism in the 1980s, and would travel to Mainland China by rail taking photographs on slide film.…
In Vox’s video, China’s panda diplomacy, explained, I was surprised to learn how pandas are used as tools in China for diplomatic strategies. Most all of the pandas in zoos worldwide belong…
The cult classic 1980’s Japanese television series Monkey, from the classical Chinese book Journey to the West, is being remade in New Zealand as a 10-part series due for release…
Iris Lu’s parents lived in the rural province of Yunnan. In the 1990s, her mother, Deng Cuiping, started practicing Falun Gong to help relieve stress and insomnia. This was at…
