https://www.scmp.com/rss/500517/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com On September 21, 1946, German-born photographer Hedwig Marie “Hedda” Morrison arrived with her husband in Hong Kong, aboard the Hanyang, after spending 13 years in Beijing, where she had found an affinity with the Chinese. The couple would remain in the colony for only six months, but Morrison would leave behind a unique and wide-ranging photographic record. Morrison was known for her lifelong gritty resolve, much like that mirrored in a stoic shopkeeper she had photographed in Hong Kong, a... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/3176771/photos-hong-kong-aftermath-world-war-ii-capture?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/3176771/photos-hong-kong-aftermath-world-war-ii-capture?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 May 2022 00:15:13 +0000 The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. As people in Hong Kong once again feast on mooncakes and look forward to gathering under the full moon with colourful lanterns, we look back at how the city has celebrated the festivals in the past, as seen through the lens of South China Morning Post photographers. https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/3149081/history-mid-autumn-festival-hong-kong-pictures?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/3149081/history-mid-autumn-festival-hong-kong-pictures?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Sep 2021 04:45:08 +0000 On March 16, 2020, Indonesia’s Minister of Education and Culture, Nadiem Makarim, supported regional government policies to close schools and universities, as the country grappled with its Covid-19 crisis. Just 12 days earlier, on March 4, Unesco had noted that Covid-19 was disrupting the education of 290.5 million students globally. Data from the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture showed nearly 70 million of those were in Indonesia. While many parts of the world struggled to round up... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/3134284/distance-learning-difference-walkie-talkies-indonesians?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/3134284/distance-learning-difference-walkie-talkies-indonesians?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 May 2021 00:15:15 +0000 In 1947, a young woman named Marjorie Doggett and her would-be husband exchanged their native Hastings, on the south coast of England, for the far-flung imperial city of Singapore, where that same year, journeyman Lee Fook Chee traded that British island for another when he set off north across the straits to Hong Kong. The two had nothing in common, had never met, and yet more than 70 years later, it is their parallel accounts of two former island colonies that collide and contrast in... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3129455/old-photos-hong-kong-and-singapore-1950s-tell?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3129455/old-photos-hong-kong-and-singapore-1950s-tell?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Apr 2021 01:15:13 +0000 In the deep valleys and rugged hills framing the Dadu River in southwestern China, dark slender towers bristle among picturesque hamlets and terraced fields. Tapering skyward over 100 feet, their enigmatic profiles stand sentinel over a dramatic landscape tamed by fields and orchards. These days, the Dadu River is more synonymous with the construction of what’s expected to be the world’s tallest dam and a chain-link footbridge dating back to the Qing Dynasty. Roughly halfway between these two... https://www.scmp.com/travel/himalayan-towers-sichuan/article/3122058?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/himalayan-towers-sichuan/article/3122058?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:46:50 +0000 The Yangtze River in China is Asia’s longest river and one of two main waterways that have sustained Chinese civilization for thousands of years. Aptly known in Chinese simply as “the long river,” the Yangtze traverses the expanse of China, flowing from the glacial waters of the western Tibetan Plateau before emptying out at the port of Shanghai into the East China Sea. For generations, the Yangtze River has been a political, economic, and cultural mainspring. Leaders have tried to tame it and... https://www.scmp.com/travel/yangtze-photographic-journey-through-chinas-longest-river/article/3093341?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/yangtze-photographic-journey-through-chinas-longest-river/article/3093341?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:34:47 +0000 Hong Kong is known for its world-class tailors and alteration shops, but with the coronavirus keeping most people indoors, these stores have seen their business dwindle. To stay afloat, many of them have come up with a novel solution: making DIY masks out of fabric. As demand for facial protection rises amid the Covid-19 pandemic, fabric shops in the working-class neighborhood of Sham Shui Po have shifted to selling cloth masks. (Read more: Why you see masks everywhere in Asia but not in the... https://www.scmp.com/culture/coronavirus-hong-kong-tailors-find-unlikely-gold-mine-making-face-masks-during-pandemic/article/3081724?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/coronavirus-hong-kong-tailors-find-unlikely-gold-mine-making-face-masks-during-pandemic/article/3081724?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:36:40 +0000 It’s 5:50 am, with just a faint purple light glowing on the horizon, when a group of children aged 6 to 15 march diligently toward their classrooms. At 6:15, they begin lessons in Chinese, English, and math. At 7:50, they stop for breakfast. There’s no time to linger, though, because the students must be clean and dressed by 8.30. They head upstairs to two spacious rooms on the first floor of an L-shaped building near the center of Liaoning’s capital, Shenyang. Here, the real training begins—in... https://www.scmp.com/culture/china-acrobatics-school-opportunity/article/3042671?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/china-acrobatics-school-opportunity/article/3042671?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:18:07 +0000 If you’re traveling in China and short on cash—and don’t particularly care when you arrive at a destination—there’s a transportation option called the “green train.” For decades, the trains, so named for their distinct forest-green tint, have served as the cheapest—and slowest—way of getting from one city to another. They lack air-conditioning and heating, and they’re frequently delayed, but a ticket on a third-class carriage can cost a tenth of the price of a business-class ticket on a... https://www.scmp.com/travel/china-green-train-photographer/article/3040394?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/china-green-train-photographer/article/3040394?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:00:24 +0000 Internationally, the 1980s were about MTV, big hair, and even bigger shoulder pads. But what was it like inside China? The decade arrived just two years after leader Deng Xiaoping set course on a set of economic reforms, dragging the country out of decades of isolation and giving its people their first glimpses of the outside world. There was a newfound sense of optimism, particularly among young people, according to photojournalist Adrian Bradshaw, who has collected a number of his striking... https://www.scmp.com/culture/china-nostalgia-1980s-photos-adrian-bradshaw/article/3030987?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/china-nostalgia-1980s-photos-adrian-bradshaw/article/3030987?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Oct 2019 01:00:14 +0000 Over 1,000 people attended a mass same-sex wedding banquet outside the presidential palace in Taipei on Saturday, one day after Taiwan legally recognized the first same-sex marriages in Asia. As the sun set over the capital, eager spectators lined up along Ketagalan Boulevard, where countless protests and parades for LGBTQ rights have taken place in the last few decades, to witness the marriage of 20 same-sex couples. The mood was convivial, as the site of protest became one for... https://www.scmp.com/identity/taiwan-same-sex-marriage-mass-gay-wedding-photos/article/3011979?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/identity/taiwan-same-sex-marriage-mass-gay-wedding-photos/article/3011979?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 May 2019 11:43:31 +0000 There are more than 300 different kinds of Chinese opera. Sichuan is one of them. If you have heard of Sichuan opera, you probably know it as that Chinese show where performers change masks really quickly. But that’s mostly a tourist gimmick. Real Sichuan opera—from the southwestern province of Sichuan—engages all parts of the body, including the hands, eyes, and feet. At its heyday, opera was the main source of entertainment in China, and the government actively promoted the art form as a... https://www.scmp.com/culture/chinese-opera-sichuan/article/3011648?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/chinese-opera-sichuan/article/3011648?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2019 07:20:04 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/story/photos-hong-kong-skyscraper-dystopia-michael-wolf/article/3008581?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/story/photos-hong-kong-skyscraper-dystopia-michael-wolf/article/3008581?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 May 2019 10:39:41 +0000 Tucked away up winding roads in the misty mountain village of Liangjiashan in China’s Zhejiang Province is a small see-through library standing on stilts. From a distance, it looks practically suspended in midair among the squat, stone houses that surround it. Clear panels cover its facade, revealing the fore-edges of old books. The place is so quiet that the only sound is the steady flow of water from a nearby river. It is the ideal spot for bookworms, but ironically, most of the village’s 34... https://www.scmp.com/travel/photos-cool-see-through-library-middle-rural-china/article/3008168?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/photos-cool-see-through-library-middle-rural-china/article/3008168?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Apr 2019 02:22:10 +0000 Tan Yuanyuan is considered one of the world’s greatest ballerinas. Currently a principal dancer at the San Francisco Ballet, she is the first Chinese dancer to reach that rank at a major ballet company. Her skill and grace have earned her accolades across the world. Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV listed her among the world’s most influential Chinese people. Time magazine called her a “hero of Asia.” And Chelsea Clinton featured her in the book She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed... https://www.scmp.com/culture/tan-yuan-yuan-chinese-ballerina-san-francisco-ballet/article/3005844?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/tan-yuan-yuan-chinese-ballerina-san-francisco-ballet/article/3005844?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Apr 2019 04:32:40 +0000 Miss Chinatown USA is one of the oldest beauty pageants of its kind. We went behind the scenes of this annual tradition in San Francisco. https://www.scmp.com/story/becoming-miss-chinatown/article/3001005?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/story/becoming-miss-chinatown/article/3001005?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:31:49 +0000 Liao Liqiang remembers when he first began exploring Chongqing, the Chinese megacity where he was born and raised, as a photographer. He started seeing the city in a different light and recognized the elements that made it special. He was rediscovering the city he had called home, and it was then that Liao committed himself to capturing the hidden corners of Chongqing before they disappeared to make way for development. “I choose subjects that can’t really be found in other cities,” he says,... https://www.scmp.com/culture/capturing-chongqings-hidden-beauty-it-disappears/article/3000918?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/capturing-chongqings-hidden-beauty-it-disappears/article/3000918?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:17:17 +0000 The #10YearChallenge, where people post two pictures of themselves—one from today and one from a decade ago—to see how much they have (or haven’t) changed, has taken the internet by storm. Here at Goldthread, we thought it would be a fun experiment to apply the challenge to China, which has seen some dramatic changes in the past decade. In 2009, the country had just come off hosting the Summer Olympics. Its population was 1.3 billion, the iPhone 3G had just come out, and WeChat didn’t exist... https://www.scmp.com/culture/we-did-10yearchallenge-5-chinese-cities/article/3000561?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/we-did-10yearchallenge-5-chinese-cities/article/3000561?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:03:04 +0000 In 2010, a young woman in Chengdu was attacked by a group of college students because she was wearing traditional Chinese robes. The students thought her dress was a Japanese kimono, forced her to take it off, and burned it in public. “I realized people didn’t know what hanfu [traditional Chinese clothing] was,” says Zhang Qinglin, a college student in Chengdu who started wearing the dress after hearing the story. “I wanted people to know more about these clothes and our history.” In the past 15... https://www.scmp.com/culture/its-not-just-costume-chinese-people-who-ditched-jeans-ancient-robes/article/3000310?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/its-not-just-costume-chinese-people-who-ditched-jeans-ancient-robes/article/3000310?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:56:42 +0000