This month, we’re looking at Asian tradition beyond the tangible — foodways, festivals, languages, gestures, crafts, and digital folklore. We’ll be exploring how memory becomes a living medium in the 21st century.
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If you type “supermarket”into your map in Changning, Shanghai, you might stumble upon something unexpected: New Writing Supermarket (@newwritingsupermarket ). And no, you can’t buy your groceries here.
What will you find? A nonprofit creative hub founded in 2025, dedicated to giving young artists a space to experiment, perform, and connect. Theater workshops. Script readings. A shared history of art and creativity, written collectively by those who participate in building this creative community at the heart of the city. A liminal space for every kind of art — there is always room to adapt, and every art form finds its place here.
So next time you‘re in Changning, skip the grocery aisle. Swing by New Writing Supermarket instead.
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If you type “supermarket”into your map in Changning, Shanghai, you might stumble upon something unexpected: New Writing Supermarket (@newwritingsupermarket ). And no, you can’t buy your groceries here.
What will you find? A nonprofit creative hub founded in 2025, dedicated to giving young artists a space to experiment, perform, and connect. Theater workshops. Script readings. A shared history of art and creativity, written collectively by those who participate in building this creative community at the heart of the city. A liminal space for every kind of art — there is always room to adapt, and every art form finds its place here.
So next time you‘re in Changning, skip the grocery aisle. Swing by New Writing Supermarket instead.
#Radiimedia #Radii #ShanghaiArt #TheaterLife #ShanghaiCreatives
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Shanghai’s last newspaper stand was supposed to close by the end of 2025. Instead, it just reopened... 300 meters from its original spot. For nearly 40 years, Jiang Jun has been the face of this tiny stand. He planned to retire. His customers had other ideas.
Now at 430 Zhapu Lu, the new space is brighter but the ritual remains the same. Regulars walk in, and without a word, Jiang already has their paper ready.
From vintage magazines to today’s headlines, stepping inside feels like walking down memory lane. For younger visitors, it’s a rare chance to touch print media in an era ruled by screens.
Want to slow down? Head over, grab a paper, and share a moment with the city’s last newsstand.
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Shanghai’s last newspaper stand was supposed to close by the end of 2025. Instead, it just reopened... 300 meters from its original spot. For nearly 40 years, Jiang Jun has been the face of this tiny stand. He planned to retire. His customers had other ideas.
Now at 430 Zhapu Lu, the new space is brighter but the ritual remains the same. Regulars walk in, and without a word, Jiang already has their paper ready.
From vintage magazines to today’s headlines, stepping inside feels like walking down memory lane. For younger visitors, it’s a rare chance to touch print media in an era ruled by screens.
Want to slow down? Head over, grab a paper, and share a moment with the city’s last newsstand.
#Radiimedia #Radii #Shanghai #OldShanghai #PrintMedia
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Zhang Xiao’s photos feel like they belong to a dream you can’t quite explain.
Based in Chengdu, Zhang (@zhangxiao_art) has spent his career documenting the surreal, the sacred, and the everyday across rural China. His early work captured the absurdities born from rapid development, snapshot-style images that feel both real and dreamlike.
Zhang describes it as an “unreal world.” In his work Shanxi (2007), he unveils that to the audience. Each year during the first lunar month, villages in Shanxi transform into wonderlands. Shehuo (Community Fire) and temple fairs take over, turning the land into a theatrical stage. Ordinary people become something more. Confusion and daily struggles are momentarily set aside.
More from this series coming soon.
#Radiimedia #Radii #ZhangXiao #RuralChina #ChinesePhotography
Zhang Xiao’s photos feel like they belong to a dream you can’t quite explain.
Based in Chengdu, Zhang (@zhangxiao_art) has spent his career documenting the surreal, the sacred, and the everyday across rural China. His early work captured the absurdities born from rapid development, snapshot-style images that feel both real and dreamlike.
Zhang describes it as an “unreal world.” In his work Shanxi (2007), he unveils that to the audience. Each year during the first lunar month, villages in Shanxi transform into wonderlands. Shehuo (Community Fire) and temple fairs take over, turning the land into a theatrical stage. Ordinary people become something more. Confusion and daily struggles are momentarily set aside.
More from this series coming soon.
#Radiimedia #Radii #ZhangXiao #RuralChina #ChinesePhotography
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Once seen as a pastime for the older generation, Mahjong is finding a new way to present itself to the world...and to fashion.
Now you can see mahjong on a keychain, a bracelet, a pair of earrings, or a bag you take to dinner. Each one still carries the same characters, but the textures and ways of wearing them keep getting more creative.
It makes sense though. Mahjong has always been more than a game. For elders, it’s a reason to sit together for hours. For young Asians , it’s a sound, a culture, an identity, also a way of bringing people together that doesn’t need much explanation. Wearing it is just another way of keeping it close.
Swipe through some mahjong accessories we found online >>>
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Once seen as a pastime for the older generation, Mahjong is finding a new way to present itself to the world...and to fashion.
Now you can see mahjong on a keychain, a bracelet, a pair of earrings, or a bag you take to dinner. Each one still carries the same characters, but the textures and ways of wearing them keep getting more creative.
It makes sense though. Mahjong has always been more than a game. For elders, it’s a reason to sit together for hours. For young Asians , it’s a sound, a culture, an identity, also a way of bringing people together that doesn’t need much explanation. Wearing it is just another way of keeping it close.
Swipe through some mahjong accessories we found online >>>
#Radiimedia #Radii #mahjong #asianculture #chinese
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After nine years of calling Hong Kong home, Estelle (@estelleeee1), freelance marketing strategist and brand guru to some of the most iconic street wear labels, has mastered the art of showing up, whether it’s belting out Cantopop between bites at a neon-lit dai pai dong, losing hours trying on vintage finds at HULA, or tracking down the perfect Martini at The Diplomat. She states whenever the mood strikes, and always down to meet new people.
Her Hong Kong is loud, chaotic, and impossibly charming. It’s late-night mahjong after spicy 口水雞, rooftop cocktails at Cardinal Point with the city lights below, and legit Thai food in Sai Kung after a long hike. It’s where no one sings well at dinner, but that’s exactly the point.
Come visit? Hit her up. She’ll show you around.
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After nine years of calling Hong Kong home, Estelle (@estelleeee1), freelance marketing strategist and brand guru to some of the most iconic street wear labels, has mastered the art of showing up, whether it’s belting out Cantopop between bites at a neon-lit dai pai dong, losing hours trying on vintage finds at HULA, or tracking down the perfect Martini at The Diplomat. She states whenever the mood strikes, and always down to meet new people.
Her Hong Kong is loud, chaotic, and impossibly charming. It’s late-night mahjong after spicy 口水雞, rooftop cocktails at Cardinal Point with the city lights below, and legit Thai food in Sai Kung after a long hike. It’s where no one sings well at dinner, but that’s exactly the point.
Come visit? Hit her up. She’ll show you around.
Follow @RADII_media for more ultimate city guides across Asia.
#RADIImedia #radii #HongKong #CityGuide #DaiPaiDong
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