Infographics: Natural Growth Rate, Population, Birth Rate, Death Rate in China

4 interesting infographics on Natural Growth Rate, Population at the end of the year, Birth Rate, Death Rate in China. Data from National Bureau of Statistics of China.
 

25 Western Depictions of Crime and Punishment during Qing Dinasty - part one

This collection of 51 images on crime and punishment in late Imperial China is gleaned from the 19th century Westerners’ China travelogues at the George Peabody Library.
 

Far East Film Festival 15, official lineup

Udine - The line up of the Far East Film Festival 15 was released to the Press today. The 2013 edition (19th to 27th of April), which will present 57 titles (in addition to 6 shorts of the Hong Kong Freshwave, 3 titles with and by King Hu and a tribute to Mario O'Hara), will present the Lifetime Achievement Award to the world ambassador of Korean culture: the great Kim Dong-ho.
 

Hong Kong Cage dwellers

When we think about Hong Kong often images of shiny skyscrapers and colorful neon signs come to mind.
 

MADE IN JAPAN - Three of the most representative films of the 2013 edition are from Japan

Three of the most representative films of the 2013 edition are from Japan: I Have to Buy New Shoes by Eriko Kitagawa, See You Tomorrow, Everyone by Yoshihiro Nakamura and A Story of Yonosuke by Shuichi Okita.
 

110 kids: photo project on Chinese Street Children

Most of the shots were taken in the narrow streets of Kunming, many of those streets no longer exist, having been wiped out and demolished by bulldozers. Now, where the children portrayed in the photos lived and played, there are construction sites, luxury buildings and shopping malls.
 

41 propaganda posters for Chinese children

A unique collection of vintage propaganda posters directed to children. Add a comment
 

22 images of police raids on brothels in China

From time to time in major Chinese sites are posted pictures of police raids on brothels.
 

City Eraser: wandering around destroyed cities



Today, anywhere in China. Everyday, millions of square meters of old slums are torn down to make room for luxury condos and shopping malls.
 

10 beautiful pictures of Mongolia in 1913

Mongolia declared its independence from China in 1911.
 

12 rare pictures: removing dead bodies teams in China (1948)

The disastrous years of the War of Resistance against Japanese aggression and the War of Liberation devastated China: dead bodies were scattered along Chinese roads.
 

Home Containers city in Shanghai

Many disused containers near Shanghai have been converted into houses.
 

Realistic painting in tree cavities

A twenty-two years old Chinese student in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, from middle of January 2013 has become famous in the city.
 

The first photographs of nude art in China (15 rare images)

Artistic nude and human body model were introduced in China about a century ago by Chinese students who studied abroad and later returned bringing with them not only foreign ideologies and sciences, but also something more.
 

Pollution in China - Toxic Linfen

A documentary by Vice investigating the devastating effects of pollution in China.
 

36 Chinese advertising posters of the 30s

Before the advent of the Communist regime in 1949, China, and especially Shanghai began to experience some forms of advertising borrowed from the West.
 

FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL 15 - UDINE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS THE GREAT KIM DONG-HO!

UDINE – The gaze focused on the present and the future of Asian film, through 60 titles that draw on the best productions in recent months, and a tribute to the world ambassador of Korean culture: the great Kim Dong-ho! This is the fifteenth – much awaited – edition of the Far East Film Festival. Here is the window that will open up, from April 19 to 27, on the Far East...
 

Lost pyramids of Wuhan

At the Moshan Scenic Area, near Wuhan, amongst an overgrowth of dense bushes and thick grass, lie two abandoned pyramids. The structures, designed as a tourist attraction, were never completed because of the poor conditions of the roads.
 

Spinner 360 in Wonderland


Dominique Musorrafiti produced this gallery with her Spinner 360 and a Lomography CN 400 film.
 

Five must-see destinations in China

 
In recent years, China has become not only an economic giant but also an increasingly important destination for international tourism.
 

Bizarre Kingdom of the Little People shot on film

Shiny Little People!
 

Guys Who Wear Women's Clothes: 25 images

Last month, a Chinese senior has become very popular via offbeatchina.
 

Chinese Mortuary providing massages to the deads

During the last edition of an International fair of funeral services held in Wuhan, a Chinese company  presented a special treatment for the dead, offering massages and spa. Add a comment
 

A live-animal transport truck converted into a house

A small live-animal transport truck has been transformed into a house by a Kunming's couple. Add a comment
 

Real life vs Ideal life in China

Chinese photographer Ni Weihua presented an alternative approach to the reality of China's cities.
 

Postcards of slow slicing during Qing Dinasty (Graphic content)

A series of French postcards depicting one of the most gruesome punishment in China: Death by a thousands cuts (Lingchi).
 

The slow death of Chinese rural circuses

Yongqiao, in northern Anhui, is considered the birthplace of Chinese circus with more than 300 companies, employing over 20,000 people. Add a comment
 

Two Generations of Contemporary Chinese Art

Brian Wallace, founding director of Red Gate Gallery, is pleased to announce the return of the gallery’s 20thAnniversary Exhibition – Two Generations of Contemporary Chinese Art.
 

Longting Magic Well

In Longting, Xintai, Shandong, villagers in the course of 10 years built a huge stone well (18 meters wide and 28 deep). Add a comment
 

Chinese kids army against Japan

Small People Liberation Army to conquer Diaoyu Island! In a kindergarten of Zhejiang province was organized a demonstration to defend the Diaoyu Islands.
 

A tragic episode of cannibalism during the famine of the Great Leap Forward (Graphic Content)

During the disastrous country renovation of the Great Leap Forward, China experienced one of its darkest periods, called the Three Years of Great Chinese Famine.
 

A nail house in the middle of the road

In Wenling, Zhejiang Province, in the middle of a new road, not far from the railway station, there is a "nail house". Add a comment
 

The dumbest thief wears a stool instead of balaclavas

Probably was too late to turn back, once detected the presence of surveillance cameras in the place where he had slipped. Add a comment
 

21 crazy buildings in China

Chinese website 163.com, compiled a gallery of the 21 craziest buildings built in recent decades in China.
 

Scandal at Chinese Motorshow: baby models in bikini

Journalist Ching Ming, invited to Wuhan International Convention & Exhibition Centre, a couple of days ago,  reviewed the show from an unexpected point of view.
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Chinese Women of America anti Japanese demonstrations in New York in 1938: 15 beautiful pictures

A fundraiser parade of Chinese beauty activists organized by overseas Chinese  in order to fund anti Japanese activities in Wuhan.
 

Shanghai 1949, on the eve of the communist liberation

Within a few years, the city seemed to be destined to become a cosmopolitan economic and cultural capital of East Asia, closed in on itself.
 

Heroes Next Door, daily routine of Superheroes in Hong Kong: 28 images

Chow Kar Hoo is an emerging artist specialized in fine art photography. Since his graduation in June, he started his career by setting up Overnight Studio with the help of some friend. Add a comment
 

Our lives in a public toilet

In Guangzhou city , a family of three people lives in the building of public toilets. Liao Xiaoming, from Maoming, Chaozhou Xuan and Wang Na, left their town to take advantage of the possibility of free education, which provides the city of Guangzhou. Add a comment
 

The art of Jiang Shan: 22 images

Jiang Shan is a Chinese artist who lives in London and works as a creative designer in England for Ilovedust since 2005. Add a comment
 

Fluid Hong Kong

Every day, Hong Kong is crossed by a continuous flow of people, cars and lights moving through the streets of the city. At the same time there is also loneliness, fixity and permanence. Add a comment
 

30 dramatic images of the 1942 Henan famine

Henan Province was hit by a terrible famine between the summer of 1942 and the spring of 1943 that led to the death of 3 million people (other sources report 1 million deaths).
 

Wildlife Silent Hill: 20 pictures of Traditional Chinese Medicine animal markets

"Wildlife Silent Hill" is an explicit report by a Chinese photographer on the abuses against animals in Traditional Chinese Medicine markets scattered in Southern China (Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong).
 

Sky Burial: the macabre tibetan ritual dissection

Even today, Tibetan communities continue to celebrate their ancient customs and traditions. Among these, one of the most special funerary traditions is related to the open-air sacrificial burial, Sky burial or ritual dissection, an ancient funerary practice wherein a human corpse is incised in certain location and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to vultures. Add a comment
 

The Hello Kitty Murder: Hong Kong’s most sordid crime in a decade

Detectives were skeptical when a pretty 14-year-old girl turned up at a Tsim Sha Tsui police station in May 1999 saying she was being haunted by the ghost of a woman she had helped torture, kill and butcher a year earlier. But when they followed up her claims and visited a third-floor apartment in Hong Kong’s shoppers’ paradise, Granville Road, they uncovered what many police and lawyers consider Hong Kong’s most sordid and revolting crime in almost a decade.
 

Torture punishments inflicted on adulteresses in ancient China: 26 images

In ancient China, chastity was considered a virtue very important. Add a comment
 

Red tourism: a theme park dedicated to the Sino-Japanese War in China

A theme park just dedicated to the glories of the past is located in Wuxiang county, Shanxi, at the foot of the Taihang Mountains: the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army (八路军). Add a comment
 

First same-sex marriage in China: 26 images

Quanzhou, Fujian Province held the first public gay marriage of China. Lu Zhong, 24, and Wanqiang Liu, 20, celebrated their union in the streets of the city by sharing their joy. Add a comment
 

38 rare pictures of eunuchs during Qing Dinasty

A eunuch (太監, Taijian) is a man who has been castrated in his early life for this change to have major hormonal consequences. Add a comment
 

Shanghai as you've never seen it before: Planet Shanghai

Zhang Haitao is a Chinese photographer who decided to transform his panoramic photos of Shanghai in to 360 ° planets. Add a comment
 

35 rare images of the infamous Japanese experiment unit 731 in China

Unit 731 (731部隊), based at the Pingfang district of Harbin and led by the infamous Japanese microbiologist Shiro Ishii, was a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II.
 

Chinese students from the eighties vs 2012: 20 images

Two galleries issued respectively on Xinhuanet.com and 163.com. In these photos, we can see portraits of Chinese students in classrooms, libraries and dormitories. Add a comment
 

Serene Scent: New Ink Painting

Over the last two decades, new ink painting has been the integral part of Chinese contemporary art movement/scene, and with the development of societal/economical climate and art context its art vision has been broaden and matured. Add a comment
 

ABUSES IN THE EVICTION PROCESS

“What’s the point if a few of us live well and shut our mouths but the government continues to abuse other citizens, creating more broken families and poverty and pushing people outside the city to give their land to the richest businessmen. Many who seek justice through law face detention and torture in custody. What we ask for is not a personal settlement, but public justice.”
Housing rights advocate Mao Hengfeng
 

BACKGROUND: THOUSANDS FACE VIOLENT EVICTION IN CHINA

Even before it took power, the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong established its legitimacy in the countryside through land-to-tiller, mass-mobilization policies intended to break the economic and social control enjoyed by rural elites. The Party redistributed farmland from landlords to peasants in a process frequently marked by violence.
 

STANDING THEIR GROUND: THOUSANDS FACE VIOLENT EVICTION IN CHINA

“Consultation, negotiation and litigation help little for land issues. Officials collude with businessmen to seize the land in the name of economic development and use land as a mortgage to harm the interests of villagers.”
Lin Zuluan, newly elected leader for Wukan village, Guangdong province
 

21 old (and scary) pictures of lotus feet

Foot binding, 缠足, is the antique custom of traditional Chinese society of binding the feet of girls painfully tight to prevent further growth. Add a comment
 

Sad documentary about AIDS condition in Henan

Mistakes, abuses and prejudices of an entire system that underestimated and then inadequately treated a dangerous health problem with the wrong tools: inadequate medicines, medicines not approved by the United Nations, discriminations.
 

21 rares and beautiful hand-painted pictures of old China

Directly from the archives of the University of Southern California (UCLA) twenty hand-painted shots of a China almost completely disappeared.
 

816 Nuclear Military Plant, underground top secret facility

816 Nuclear Military Plant was a huge underground top secret facility hidden in the mountains of Baitao town, in Chongqing area. Add a comment
 

Chinese Man Builds Himself Bionic Hands from scrap metal (video)

Sun Jifa, a 51-year-old Chinese man who lost both hands when he was building a bomb for blast fishing built himself a pair of bionic hands after 8 years of work. Add a comment
 

SAN ZIMEI - THREE SISTERS

Three sisters live alone in a small village family house in the high mountains of the Yunnan region.
 

JINGANG JING - DIAMOND SUTRA

Xiao Kang in a monk’s red robe – / my third slow walking film. / He walks past an electric rice cooker, / as slowly as ever. /
 

GAOSU TAMEN, WO CHENG BAIHE QU LE - FLY WITH THE CRANE

73 year old Lao Ma and Lao Cao were once famous carpenters in the village, they would partner with elders from the neighboring villages to make coffins.
 

BANSULLI - THE FLUTE

After a decade-long civil war which cost more than 13,000 lives, the Maoists have come into the front-line, to compete in the national election for the Constituent Assembly.
 

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST

Student demonstrations are raging in Lahore, as young Pakistani professor Changez Khan and a journalist, Bobby Lincoln, share a cup of tea and conversation.
 

SHOKUZAI (PENANCE)

Fifteen years ago, tragedy struck a small town when a young elementary school girl Emili was abducted and killed by a stranger.
 

Tai Chi O

As an uncommonly gifted child, Yang Luchan had a fl eshy abnormality that holds tremendous power growing on his forehead.
 

SINAPUPUNAN - THY WOMB

Shaleha Sarail hails from a water-village in Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi. The province is a seaweed producing area in the southern most part of the Philippines down to the Malaysian and Indonesian archipelagos.
 

OUTRAGE BEYOND

The Sanno crime family has grown into a huge organization, expanding its power into politics and legitimate big business.
 

PIETA

Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a loan shark brutally threatening people for paybacks.
 

All the movies from Far East at the Venice Film Festival

69th edition of Venice Film Festival will start within few days . After the break, all the movies from Far East presented at the kermesse: images, trailers and more. Add a comment
 

11 rare videos of Chinese with supernatural powers!

From late seventies to mid-nineties, Qigong enjoyed a huge success in China. In this period more than 2000 schools of qigong flourished in the country: dozens of masters taught the Special Abilities (SA, teyigongneng in Chinese) or paranormal powers.
 

Giant 3d Art from China

Wan Yiju and Wan Yiheng created a 148,63 meters long 3D painting.  Add a comment
 

X-ray glasses strike back from China

Do you remember the weird ads from the 70s cheap comics promoting X-ray glasses to see through clothes and walls? Add a comment
 

Inside the Chinese pirates' den: hacking Xbox360 & Playstation 3

Few days ago we found the office of a Chinese pirate of Microsoft Xbox360 and Sony Playstation 3.
 

Disappearing China: Yang Kei village, Guangzhou

On July 1, 2010, Guangzhou began demolition of Yangqi village. The work went on for over a year.
 

Ten bear paws seized in China

On January 19th, Chongqing airport police seized 10 bear paws during a routine check. 
 

1300 dogs rescued by Chinese volunteers

Chongqing. On the evening of January 15th a group of seventeen volunteers freed more than 1300 dogs from a large truck from Zhangjiang despite the lack of food, water and medicines.
 

Cool Sino Soviet Propaganda Images

During the fifties, sino-soviet relations were essentially benign, even if the  ideological roots of the Sino-Soviet split originated in the 1940s and started just after the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance (1950). Add a comment
 

Incredible architecture design flaw in China

Nanning. A block of houses do not allow works to go on and as a result -after 1 year- the construction of road bridge has been interrupted (UPDATED)
 

Learn dangerously in Nujiang Valley

Putting your life at risk to learn a little bit more.  Add a comment
 

Invisible people of Chongqing


Photographer Wang Yuanling has shown his photos depicting some residents of Chongqing.
 

Monica Bellucci defeats men's sexual failure in China

Many movies and fashion stars, although not officially involved in the promotion process of Chinese products, are illegally chosen as godmothers or godfathers by an increasing number of local brands. Add a comment
 

40-year history of China in the photos of Zhu Xianmin and Wang Yuwen

If you are in Shenzhen don't miss "Workers, Farmers - Zhu Xianmin, Wang Yuwen image collection exhibition" organized by local photographers association.
 

The End of Days, video

 
Today, anywhere in China. Everyday, millions of square meters of old slums are torn down to make room for luxury condos and shopping malls.
 

The Life and Career of Steve Jobs in 3d

Taiwanese company Next Media Animation strikes back.
 

Click Baidu you will get it. Click Google, you know too much

A failed advertisement in a shopping mall in Kunming, southern China. Add a comment
 

Lost & Found: forgotten memories

What happens if some old films are found in the debris of a city ?
 

The Empire of Chinese Dwarves (video + pics)


After two years we are back to the Empire of Dwarves, a crazy theme park not far from Kunming.
 

Flowers of Yunnan

 

United Bugs of China

A collection of spiders, worms, bees, dragonflies, ladybugs and other colorful bugs images taken with a macro lens in parks and woods spread around Yunnan.
 

City cruncher: Living in a post atomic China


Kunming, once known as the city of the Eternal Spring, now it's experiencing an era of transition.
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Scary invasion of algae on the beaches of Qingdao

Qingdao beach after an invasion of sea lettuce. Add a comment
 

How to turn a city into powder

A side-effect of a rapid modernization is the confusion.
 

Cultural Revolution propaganda images of the Chinese navy drills

Defend the territorial waters was the priority of the People's Liberation Army troops.
 

Luna Park fun in China

Daguan Park is located on the shores of Dianchi Lake, in the southwest of Kunming City.
 

Locust invasion in Changsha

Fu Sheng, a village not far from Changsha has been invaded by a swarm of locusts. Add a comment
 

Surreal images of floods in China

Summer is coming, time of flooding in China.
 

Miserable life of a Goldfish in China ...

The life of a goldfish in China can be quite tough. Add a comment
 

Chinese Opium-Smokers in the late XIX Century in US

In nineteenth century thousands of Chinese people crossed the ocean to find work in the United States.