On June 30th, 2020, the people of Hong Kong mourned the loss of their country’s freedom under the newly passed Hong Kong National Security Law. This piece of legislation banned any instance of “secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign or external forces”. While it may not sound problematic as
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As kids, we grow up fearing sharks, but who is more in danger? After watching movies like Jaws and The Meg, humans are trained to think that sharks are at the top of the food chain, but one delicacy in China has completely changed the species. Since the 14th Century,
TikTok is an app that’s been creating much hubbub in the news and even more issues in the last year than almost any other social media app in the past. This is an app that allows users to make videos up to one minute long and use either original sounds
In 2017, Ge Yulu, 27, a graduate with a Master’s degree in Experimental Art from China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), rose to fame in China because of one of his works of art: he had secretly named a road in Beijing after himself three years ago, and
Since the publication of this video, China has said to have released most of all the Uighurs “prisoners”, the muslim minority living in northwest china, from the recently exposed internment camps. Already living in a high-tech surveillance state, this muslim minority group has been watched, humiliated, and locked up for
In the year 2017, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City released several art pieces in an exhibit called, “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World.” Made by Alexander Monroe, the Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art, along with Hou Hanru and Phillip Tinariin, the purpose
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s video, “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other,” was scheduled to be displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in October 2017. The seven minute video depicts eight American pit bulls harnessed to eight treadmills. The treadmills are operating at a fast speed and people
Criminal-censorship or criminal censorship? China’s Golden Shield Project is regarded as the world’s most influential system of censorship and surveillance, right alongside Google. With a broad blanket statement stating that “Individuals are prohibited from using the Internet to: harm national security; disclose state secrets; or injure the interests of the
Who remembers the last time they were told what they were not allowed to view? When you were living in your parent’s house before you turned 18? Most people may believe that is true, that their parents were the last people who had control over what they watched but in
In China, if you want to get the business from other people, or you want to have a good relationship with your boss. You may need to drink much alcoholic drinks to show your sincerity, and it also means you are respecting people who have dinner with you. It lead