https://www.scmp.com/rss/500288/feed Lavinia Liang is a freelance writer currently based in Beijing. Her work has appeared in Time, Fortune, and SupChina. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @lavinianshores. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It’s hard to categorize Ken Liu’s writing. Anyone who tries to fit the Chinese-American sci-fi writer into boxes will quickly run out of them. His first short-story collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, features everything from a tale about Chinese-American gold miners to a written documentary exposing the horrors of Unit 731 from World War II to a Calvino-esque catalog of the ways different alien species might write books. Of his short fiction work, Liu is most famous for “The... https://www.scmp.com/culture/ken-liu-silkpunk-chinese-science-fiction/article/3032565?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/ken-liu-silkpunk-chinese-science-fiction/article/3032565?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:06:36 +0000 Last month, Disney released the teaser for its live-action adaptation of Mulan and sparked a flurry of discussion around the world. Fans raved about the action scenes but lamented the apparent absence of Mushu the talking dragon. Critics wondered whether if it was an attempt to win over the lucrative mainland Chinese market, while astute observers noted the anachronistic southern-style tulou houses in the northern plains. But the latest buzz about Mulan, scheduled for release in 2020, has been... https://www.scmp.com/culture/mulan-crystal-liu-politics/article/3024598?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/mulan-crystal-liu-politics/article/3024598?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Aug 2019 04:00:10 +0000 An exclusive Facebook group for lovelorn Asians around the world has become the population’s answer to Tinder. Subtle Asian Dating, where members can “auction off” their single friends to others in the closed group, has taken off since its inception last November and developed a life of its own. Members have touted meeting beaus by “shooting their shots,” that is messaging strangers after seeing their “auction” profiles, which often read like résumés with a laundry list of achievements—an... https://www.scmp.com/culture/can-you-really-find-love-subtle-asian-dating/article/3001542?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/can-you-really-find-love-subtle-asian-dating/article/3001542?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:17:26 +0000