Projects tagged
East Asia
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Television Commercial for Communism
Read more: Television Commercial for CommunismImagine for a brief moment, that the world’s last five remaining communist countries decided to unite forces and hire the world’s top advertising agencies to re-brand and create a resurgence in the ideologies of Communism? Television Commercial for Communism [TVCC]…
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What Is Obscenity? The Story Of A Good For Nothing Artist And Her Pussy.
Read more: What Is Obscenity? The Story Of A Good For Nothing Artist And Her Pussy.Rokudenashiko is on a mission to free the vagina. In her native country of Japan, the vaginal slang word “manko” is considered taboo while the penis equivalent, “chinko,” is used freely. Rokudenashiko (the pseudonym of artist Megumi Igarashi) uses her…
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Fresh Off the Boat
Read more: Fresh Off the BoatFresh off the Boat examines the immigrant struggle told from the perspective of Eddie Huang, a modern day chef and video entrepreneur who has found a way to use food to explore culture, diaspora, and more through food, television, and…
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This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute
Read more: This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute“Girl’s Day” in China was supposed to be a way for boys on college campuses to show the girls how much they care. This year it went too far. Have you heard about “Girl’s Day?” It’s a big holiday for…
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Leftover Women
Read more: Leftover WomenThey are disparaged as “free-willed” women, “stubborn,” “picky,” “incomplete.” But a video by an East Asian beauty brand that went viral over the past week has upended the conversation on China’s sheng nu, which translates literally into “leftover women” —…
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Memorial Hall to the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
Read more: Memorial Hall to the Victims in the Nanjing MassacreNanjing, a picturesque city lying by the Yangtze River, owes its fame to its favorable geographic position, galaxy of talents and profound historical background. Having served as the capital of ten dynasties in ancient China, its splendour has remained and…
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For Warmth
Read more: For WarmthThich Nhat Hanh reads his poem “For Warmth” in Vietnamese, Krista Tippett reads the translation in English, excerpted from the episode “Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism.” Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country…
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GreatFire
Read more: GreatFireGreatFire was set up in 2011 by three anonymous individuals to counter the “Great Firewall of China”, the systematic blocking by the Chinese government of any website deemed controversial, including any that touch on news, human rights, democracy or religion.…
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Call for Remove Homophobic Chinese Textbooks
Read more: Call for Remove Homophobic Chinese TextbooksIn November 2015, Chinese LGBT activist Chen Qiuyan met with government officials in Beijing after months of campaigning to have the Ministry of Education remove textbooks which identify homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 2001, the Chinese Society of Psychiatry…
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Experiential Museum housing horrors of the past
Read more: Experiential Museum housing horrors of the pastIn time for the 30th Anniversary of the famed EDSA People People Revolution, a two-day pop-up museum in Camp Aguinaldo serves as a vivid reminder of a significant period in Philippine History. The interactive museum, which is composed of nine…