Hong Kong – “Without visiting this garden,” a beautiful woman resplendent in a Ming Dynasty robe, sings. “How could I ever have realized this splendour of spring?” Her walk is graceful; the words she sings are poetic. Although she is on a bare stage with little scenery, her voice and gestures...

Hong Kong — In Hong Kong director Ann Hui’s award winning movie Ordinary Heroes, a movie about Hong Kong’s social movements in the 1970s and 1980s, one memorable character is a Cantonese-speaking Italian priest. Franco Mella He participates in almost every major social movement to fight...

Shenzhen – It’s been called the largest annual human migration in the world. This year was no exception. China’s Ministry of Transport estimated travellers would make more than 2.5 billion journeys during the 40-day Spring Festival in order to celebrate the Lunar New Year at home. The Railway...