One of the things I was most worried about when coming to China, back when I first ventured here in late 2016, was whether I would still be able to get my movie fix. For my whole life, I have been in love with cinema, going so far as to carve out a secondary career [...]
It's a surreal experience, seeing the rest of the world enter a state of lockdown and self-quarantine, just as China begins to dial back its own government-imposed measures. As the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak, China was the first country to effectively shut itself down, closing schools, shopping malls and workplaces everywhere in an effort [...]
We're going to have to move online. We had heard the rumours and feared the worst, but many of us had hoped it would all blow over – that this was all a flash in the pan; a fuss over nothing. That was not, however, the case. In the first week of February 2020, the [...]
