https://www.scmp.com/rss/330534/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In some ways, Yan Du personifies the glamorous side of art collecting. Born near the Chinese capital, Beijing, the Hong Kong resident can name-drop many celebrity artists in her large collection, is patron of numerous museums and institutions and appears in international “top collectors” lists. But the 40-year-old mother of two cringes at the stereotype of “young Chinese collectors”. “We are not just crazy rich Asians who buy everything galleries tell us to,” she says. The coronavirus pandemic... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3170255/chinese-art-collector-goes-her-own-way-foundation-train?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3170255/chinese-art-collector-goes-her-own-way-foundation-train?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Mar 2022 04:45:15 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3156661/celibacy-old-boys-and-chop-suey-soup-dumplings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3156661/celibacy-old-boys-and-chop-suey-soup-dumplings?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Nov 2021 08:00:46 +0000 When the 26-year-old, Shanghai-based designer Zhou Rui was awarded the 2021 LVMH Karl Lagerfeld Special Jury Prize in September, it placed a global spotlight on the latest generation of Chinese designers. Zhou and Rui, her genderless fashion brand, represents the emerging force of a wealth of home-grown talent hailing from the world’s largest luxury consumer market. The Tsinghua and Parsons graduate interprets fashion as a second skin with her bold designs which have been sported by pop culture... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3155865/chinese-designers-are-worn-rihanna-and-blackpinks-lisa?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3155865/chinese-designers-are-worn-rihanna-and-blackpinks-lisa?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:18:11 +0000 C-pop has undoubtedly been a driving force behind luxury’s explosive growth with China’s young consumers over the past two years, and brands continue to mine the industry for idol ambassadors with massive influence over millennials and Gen Zers. Recent appointments include Wang Yibo for Chanel and pop stars Fan Chengcheng and Ouyang Nana for Givenchy. But despite luxury and fashion’s growing infatuation with C-pop, China’s increasingly hysterical fandom culture and the government’s repeated... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3140165/problem-c-pop-and-luxury-why-chinese-fans-wang-yibo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3140165/problem-c-pop-and-luxury-why-chinese-fans-wang-yibo?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Jul 2021 07:58:28 +0000 According to an announcement posted on the website of the National Institutes for Food and Drug Control (NIFDC), the Chinese government is proposing new legislation to prohibit the use of cannabis and cannabis extracts in cosmetics, including Cannabis sativa kernel fruit, Cannabis sativa seed oil, Cannabis sativa leaf, as well as cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabinoid that is the subject of much research into its possible health benefits. Body positivity vs body neutrality: what you need to know The... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/well-being/article/3132612/china-bans-cannabis-cosmetics-yet-remains-huge-hemp?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/well-being/article/3132612/china-bans-cannabis-cosmetics-yet-remains-huge-hemp?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 May 2021 02:00:20 +0000 Tan Jou Teng Tan Jou Teng In less than a decade, Nie Yunchen has managed to grow Chinese milk tea brand Heytea into a business with over 450 stores in mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Today, the 30-year-old brand founder – who also goes by the English name Neo – has a net worth of 4 billion yuan (US$616 million). His journey to this point has not always been a smooth one, however. Boy bands and bling: 5 most OTT crazy rich Malaysian weddings How did Nie do it? Born in 1991, Nie is from Jiangxi province in... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3131988/heytea-founder-neo-nie-yunchen-made-cheese-topped-tea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3131988/heytea-founder-neo-nie-yunchen-made-cheese-topped-tea?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:14 +0000 Tan Jou Teng Tan Jou Teng Freshly baked bread with a cup of tea might present a cosy image indeed, but Chinese entrepreneur Peng Xin’s tea appreciation vision was more ambitious than that. Her high-end tea brand, Nayuki, offers a double whammy that most competitors in the saturated milk tea drink market don’t: comfortable spaces to relax in, and fresh ingredients. Perhaps this blend is why the brand has dominated China’s tea-drinking scene in just a few years, with over 350 physical stores across over 50 Chinese cities.... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3131615/did-nayuki-make-bubble-tea-millennial-must-have-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3131615/did-nayuki-make-bubble-tea-millennial-must-have-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:00:54 +0000 Chinese live-streamer Huang Hanwen uses domestic cosmetics brands and spends his time talking about animation, comics, games and short novels (ACGN), as well as domestic, Japanese and Korean celebrities and entertainment news. At weekends, he uses Make Up For Ever and drinks imported whisky mixed with Coke or Red Bull. Huang is 24, putting him in the same demographic as most of his 300,000 fans from across China – Generation Z, which is helping to drive Chinese consumer spending.  This... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3130769/chinas-gen-z-splashes-out-luxury-little-regard-debt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3130769/chinas-gen-z-splashes-out-luxury-little-regard-debt?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Apr 2021 05:09:34 +0000 He Huifeng He Huifeng A generational shift is occurring among Chinese collectors with once popular items like tea replaced by handbags, toys and Japanese whisky as millennials and Generation Z refine their tastes and their investment habits. “Decades-old Puer tea had long been popular as an alternative investment to shares and real estate among Chinese entrepreneurs and businesspeople at around my age or older. We hoarded them as an investment and used them as high-class gifts for rich customers and local... https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/3129899/chinas-millennials-gen-z-turn-louis-vuitton-handbags?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/3129899/chinas-millennials-gen-z-turn-louis-vuitton-handbags?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Apr 2021 07:30:05 +0000 Recently news that Chinese wanghong Guo Meimei has been arrested broke across the nation’s social media. It’s the second time the notorious internet influencer has been taken in by Chinese law enforcement, following her gambling offences in 2014. A year later, the then-24-year-old was sentenced to five years in prison for operating a private gambling business in Beijing, and was released in July 2019. On March 11, Shanghai police arrested a group of people who produce and sell weight loss... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3126471/who-guo-meimei-notorious-chinese-social-media?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3126471/who-guo-meimei-notorious-chinese-social-media?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:00:19 +0000 Josephine Tee Josephine Tee The latest Chinese entrepreneur to join the three-comma club is 33-year-old Wang Ning. The newly minted billionaire is the founder and chairman of Pop Mart, the largest toy enterprise in China. Spanning 21 countries with more than 200 stores and over 1,000 vending machines – called “roboshops” – the decade-old company’s signature products are trendy figurines packaged in mystery boxes, priced around US$9 each.  Why the Black Unity Apple Watch makes a powerful statement Wang owns a majority stake... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3121164/pop-mart-how-millennial-entrepreneur-wang-ning-became?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3121164/pop-mart-how-millennial-entrepreneur-wang-ning-became?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Feb 2021 03:00:11 +0000 Global gin consumption, driven in part by Chinese interest, has been growing faster than that of any other alcoholic drink category since 2018. China’s alcohol market statistics indicate that revenue generated in the gin segment amounted to US$70 million in 2019, and that the Chinese gin market is expected to grow annually by 2.5 per cent from 2021 onwards.  Blossoming Chinese interest in the juniper-based drink has been stoked by local distilleries that trade on unique regional flavours,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3118427/why-will-china-drink-and-create-more-gin-2021-chinese-gin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3118427/why-will-china-drink-and-create-more-gin-2021-chinese-gin?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Jan 2021 07:18:50 +0000 There was no shortage of eager takers for the free mushroom frittatas and omelets at Future Food Studio, an outdoor pop-up at a glitzy Shanghai shopping mall in October. But the egg dishes—all made by well-known local chefs—contained no eggs. Instead, the main ingredient was Just Egg, a plant-based alternative consisting of mung bean and legumes. In recent years, the plant-based food craze has reached Asia, with international heavyweights such as Beyond Meat and Impossible expanding to the... https://www.scmp.com/food/beyond-impossible-china-ready-vegan-meat/article/3114184?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/beyond-impossible-china-ready-vegan-meat/article/3114184?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:59:47 +0000 Song Siqi, the Chinese director behind the animated short Sister, still remembers the exhilaration of the night she found out she was nominated for an Oscar. “I remember refreshing the page a thousand times,” she recalls. When the list of nominees finally came out, her film was at the bottom of the list in alphabetical order. “It finally popped up the moment we almost lost hope,” she says. “It was truly unforgettable.” Song is nominated for Sister, an eight-minute animated short about China’s... https://www.scmp.com/culture/oscars-song-siqi-sister/article/3049620?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/oscars-song-siqi-sister/article/3049620?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:28:39 +0000 In America, he became a symbol of hate. In China, he spoke for millions of disillusioned young people left behind in the country’s rapid economic rise. Like most internet memes, Pepe the Frog, an anthropomorphic frog with sad eyes and a dopey smile, crossed international borders and came to mean different things for different people. In America, the cartoon character was used by alt-right groups during the 2016 presidential election to aid the cause of white nationalists. In China, he came to... https://www.scmp.com/culture/how-pepe-frog-became-symbol-chinas-frustrated-youth/article/3000230?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/how-pepe-frog-became-symbol-chinas-frustrated-youth/article/3000230?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:37:47 +0000 It’s kind of like being on AOL because your parents aren’t. One of China’s OG messaging platforms is enjoying a second wind, thanks to younger users signing up. When QQ first launched in 1999, its timing and success propelled its owner, Tencent, to ubiquity in China. The country was enjoying explosive growth in internet usage, and millions of new users were signing on to chat on QQ. The platform’s penguin mascot became an icon. By the early 2010s, QQ fell out of favor as newer social apps like... https://www.scmp.com/culture/chinese-kids-are-avoiding-their-parents-using-90s-messaging-app/article/3000222?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/chinese-kids-are-avoiding-their-parents-using-90s-messaging-app/article/3000222?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:37:54 +0000 Imagine having to pass a test before a video site lets you post comments online. Chinese streaming site Bilibili makes users pass a 100-question test before they’re authorized to upload videos or post comments. And it’s hard. Bilibili started out as a home for Chinese millennials who love anime, comics and games. With a large number of user-submitted videos, Bilibili has formed a tight online community for the anime fans. It’s also branched out to cater to fans of other entertainment genres,... https://www.scmp.com/culture/gain-full-access-these-videos-you-must-pass-exam-100-very-niche-questions/article/2157030?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/gain-full-access-these-videos-you-must-pass-exam-100-very-niche-questions/article/2157030?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:45:30 +0000