https://www.scmp.com/rss/326875/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Wang Jing is so ashamed of what happened to her that, for the first hour of our conversation, at the Brooklyn district attorney’s office in New York, she makes no eye contact, as if doing so will break some spell and prevent her from finishing her story. She speaks haltingly in Mandarin, the only language we share; she would be more comfortable in Cantonese or Taishanese, the dialect of the small city in China’s Guangdong province on whose rural outskirts she was born. But, more than that, she... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2145702/blessing-scams-new-yorks-chinatowns-immigrants?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2145702/blessing-scams-new-yorks-chinatowns-immigrants?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 May 2018 13:15:45 +0000 HoneyCC likes to say that she scarcely remembers the last time someone called her by her given name, Lin Chuchu. She took her online name from a 2003 film starring Jessica Alba, about an aspiring hip hop dancer and choreographer named Honey who catches her break after a music-video director sees a clip of her performing. Something similar happened for HoneyCC, who also trained in hip hop dance, as well as in jazz and Chinese folk styles, and was equally determined to be discovered. After an... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2141257/chinas-selfie-culture-youth-obsessed-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2141257/chinas-selfie-culture-youth-obsessed-power?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:30:00 +0000