Miss A has officially entered the Chinese market with a special edition Mandarin version of their chart-topping full-length album, A Class. The Chinese edition, originally released in Taiwan on September 30, will be made available …

  The economy isn't the only thing growing like wildfire in China. China's fast growing hip-hop scene has been taking off at lightning speed over the past few years. No one knows more about this vibrant scene than Fulbright Scholar and Chinese Hip-Hop expert: Angela Steele. Angela graduated

Chinese New Year isn't just for China anymore. My first real Chinese New Year's was in Beijing in 2008, when I learned to make dumplings, took a nap, and watched a ton of fireworks -- then spent the next week trying to avoid their constant hailfire. But a year later, I was wandering around...

19 year old Liu Zhu (刘著) has always dressed this way -- like a woman. His family in Sichuan accepts him. And so do his friends. But when he went on the popular Chinese talent show, Super Boy, based on the UK's Pop Idol -- the judges questioned him. They couldn't believe that he...

They call their sound “psychedelic cumbia,” and we called them a “freight train at full speed” at SXSW...and it’s all...

This Santiago, Chile quintet (Koala Contreras – voice, SubMarcos – piano, SebaBajo – bass, Metraca – drums, DJ Sp@cio –...

If you think about it, incorporating throat singing and Mongolian instruments and shamanic traditions into black metal is really a totally logical move. Mongolian shamanism = pagan practices, revering the natural world, and badass costumes, which = black metal, obvs. Also, despite centuries of

God Only Made two Humans, the Devil Made the Rest A Voodoo Kungfu show is a bit like a Baptist revival being held by the Devil himself. When the deluge of metal pours thunderingly down, the crowd transforms into a different beast entirely, transfixed by a performance worthy of Satan’s main stage.

A handsome homeless guy is generating buzz in China. (And here's another article.) We can read about him in Japan too, where someone is loading updates almost everyday. Today, blog readers learned that he was in the military and that public services tried to help him, but he refused them and hoped

China has the biggest of everything. The world's biggest mall. The biggest dam. The biggest car dealership. Add to that list the world's largest restaurant. These hyperboles are all over the news. China's proud to have 'em and Western papers love to print stories to feed readers' fears of what a

When I was last in China, lip-synching was the happy norm. Remember that little girl who raised such a ruckus in the West because her song, performed at the Olympics, was revealed to be mimed? (She was judged more attractive than the original girl with the great set of pipes.)

Yesterday marked the 11th suicide jump by a worker in one of Apple’s Chinese manufacturing plants. The ELEVENTH in five months. Nine of those workers died.

Australian hunk Hugh Jackman was in China filming Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, playing a night-club performer who sings in both English and Mandarin. And he stopped by Jay Leno's late night talk show to rant about his experience in old Shanghai with director Wayne Wang. But he couldn't stop

Workers in Chinese factories already live in a form of hell. 60 hour work weeks — at best. Sleeping in stuffed dormitories alongside their colleagues. No A/C. Cramped. Hot.

"Fusion" is a tough concept to successfully execute.  If you pull it off, you get something new and incredibly exciting.  If you fail, you get a hot mess of epic disappointment. Designer  Sheilla Constance Sidney was born in Guyana to Haitian parents, grew up in Paris, and in 2008 launched her

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On the show Super Star Avenue, chubby young Lin Yu Chun stepped onto the stage — looking, in a bowtie, rather unlike Black American Diva Whitney Houston. Yet he sung… like the Diva was in his lungs, had taken over his soul. The video is going viral.

Every home and office should include a room where you can smash things to bits once in awhile. It would reduce stress, irritability, and our desire to attack one another violently. Well, China is ahead of the curve.

The Himalayas have the Yeti or Abominable Snowman and North America has Bigfoot or Sasquatch. China has the Yeren, a giant, hairy wild man many have claimed to have seen, but whose existence has not been proven. Those who say they have seen the creature describe him (or her?

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Hong Bao Na Lai! There are some pretty straightforward Chinese horoscopes predictions online here, where you can view info on love and money, 2 things we Chinese are endemically and singularly obsessed with. Prosperity! Work hard! Make grandchildren! Etc! I, being the Goat,

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Rock band Hinder give their take on Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy and say the album sounds "overproduced" but seems to be missing something.