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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Tom Felton just saw the Draco Malfoy CNY trend and decided to bless us all.
In China, Draco’s name is “Ma Er Fu” (马尔福), “Ma” meaning Horse, “Fu” meaning Fortune. So for the Year of the Horse, he’s accidentally become an unofficial good luck mascot. And now? The man himself joined in.
Felton posted, embracing his fate as China’s most unexpected CNY symbol. The internet? Fully losing it.
Happy Year of the Horse indeed.
#Radiimedia #Radii #TomFelton #DracoMalfoy #ChineseNewYear
Tom Felton just saw the Draco Malfoy CNY trend and decided to bless us all.
In China, Draco’s name is “Ma Er Fu” (马尔福), “Ma” meaning Horse, “Fu” meaning Fortune. So for the Year of the Horse, he’s accidentally become an unofficial good luck mascot. And now? The man himself joined in.
Felton posted, embracing his fate as China’s most unexpected CNY symbol. The internet? Fully losing it.
Happy Year of the Horse indeed.
#Radiimedia #Radii #TomFelton #DracoMalfoy #ChineseNewYear
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Your morning bus ride feels like an action movie scene, and your bus driver is a wuxia novel character.
The unique experience is only in Xiangyang buses — the birthplace of wuxia culture. They made their buses into a wuxia ancient-style theme, blending Chinese kung fu fiction and old stories. And there’s even a throne at the end of the bus.
Not just the decor, the bus drivers also dress up as famous Chinese fiction characters — Guo Jing (郭靖) , Huang Rong (黄蓉) ... It’s like your childhood fiction characters have now come to life, waving at you when you hop onto the bus.
Now you can have a unique theme park experience during your everyday commute, and the follow-up question everyone’s asking is: who will take the throne?
#Radiimedia #Radii #wuxiao #射雕英雄传 #chineseculture
Your morning bus ride feels like an action movie scene, and your bus driver is a wuxia novel character.
The unique experience is only in Xiangyang buses — the birthplace of wuxia culture. They made their buses into a wuxia ancient-style theme, blending Chinese kung fu fiction and old stories. And there’s even a throne at the end of the bus.
Not just the decor, the bus drivers also dress up as famous Chinese fiction characters — Guo Jing (郭靖) , Huang Rong (黄蓉) ... It’s like your childhood fiction characters have now come to life, waving at you when you hop onto the bus.
Now you can have a unique theme park experience during your everyday commute, and the follow-up question everyone’s asking is: who will take the throne?
#Radiimedia #Radii #wuxiao #射雕英雄传 #chineseculture
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We went to The Wang Contemporary’s (@thewangcontemporary) Chinese New Year opening in Chinatown.
20,000 red and gold paper planes drifted down from the building’s central oculus, each printed with a single English noun drawn from a 5,000-word archive. You pick one up. You unfold it. You see what word found you.
The three-day performative installation, 20,000 Variations On A Paper Plane In Flight by MSCHF (@mschf), marked the debut of The Wang Contemporary — a new cultural platform founded by Ying and Alexander Wang, rooted in Chinatown with a global vision.
Housed at 58 Bowery, a landmarked 1924 building newly reimagined as a space for creative capital, the institution positions itself as a vessel for Asian and Asian-American creativity, a stage for performance-like the one by young Chinese opera singer @kakathire during the event- public art, and a community hub for both local neighbors and international audiences.
“This project is personal — it’s rooted in my family, in Chinatown, in watching my mother think in decades rather than seasons. But it’s also new territory. It’s not about product; it’s about permanence,” Alexander Wang tells RADII when we asked him of the intentions behind this new initiative.
Check out the spectacle of The Wang Contemporary above, and let us know what your creative endeavor is for the new year.
#TheWangContemporary #MSCHF #aapi #AsianAmericanArt #RADIImedia
We went to The Wang Contemporary’s (@thewangcontemporary) Chinese New Year opening in Chinatown.
20,000 red and gold paper planes drifted down from the building’s central oculus, each printed with a single English noun drawn from a 5,000-word archive. You pick one up. You unfold it. You see what word found you.
The three-day performative installation, 20,000 Variations On A Paper Plane In Flight by MSCHF (@mschf), marked the debut of The Wang Contemporary — a new cultural platform founded by Ying and Alexander Wang, rooted in Chinatown with a global vision.
Housed at 58 Bowery, a landmarked 1924 building newly reimagined as a space for creative capital, the institution positions itself as a vessel for Asian and Asian-American creativity, a stage for performance-like the one by young Chinese opera singer @kakathire during the event- public art, and a community hub for both local neighbors and international audiences.
“This project is personal — it’s rooted in my family, in Chinatown, in watching my mother think in decades rather than seasons. But it’s also new territory. It’s not about product; it’s about permanence,” Alexander Wang tells RADII when we asked him of the intentions behind this new initiative.
Check out the spectacle of The Wang Contemporary above, and let us know what your creative endeavor is for the new year.
#TheWangContemporary #MSCHF #aapi #AsianAmericanArt #RADIImedia
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Tattooer and painter JAX (@jax_tattooer) sees his city the way he approaches his art, raw, unfiltered, and shaped by punk rock and vintage movies. His Shanghai isn’t found in the places where authenticity lives.
It’s dive bars that feel frozen in time, perfect noodle bowls from no-frills joints, and the ritual of training with a good teacher. It’s cold beer with good people, and endless exploration on two wheels. This is the city as he lives it, drawn from punk, played on film, and always in motion.
Follow @RADII_media for more ultimate city guides across Asia.
#RADIImedia #Radii #Shanghai #CityGuide #PunkRock
Tattooer and painter JAX (@jax_tattooer) sees his city the way he approaches his art, raw, unfiltered, and shaped by punk rock and vintage movies. His Shanghai isn’t found in the places where authenticity lives.
It’s dive bars that feel frozen in time, perfect noodle bowls from no-frills joints, and the ritual of training with a good teacher. It’s cold beer with good people, and endless exploration on two wheels. This is the city as he lives it, drawn from punk, played on film, and always in motion.
Follow @RADII_media for more ultimate city guides across Asia.
#RADIImedia #Radii #Shanghai #CityGuide #PunkRock
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These days, most hongbao arrive with a notification sound. A WeChat ping. An Alipay transfer. Digital confetti on your screen.
But before the QR codes and group chats, there was the physical red envelope, 红包 (hóngbāo), 利是 (lai see), ang pau (âng-pau), crisp paper, gold foil stamping, embossed characters, textured stock you could actually feel.
Originally rooted in Chinese New Year and special occasions like weddings and graduations, the red envelope tradition began in China and spread across Southeast Asia and diaspora communities worldwide. The money inside mattered. But so did the design.
Are you team digital transfer or team paper hongbao?
#radiimedia #angpao #hongbao #laisee #design
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These days, most hongbao arrive with a notification sound. A WeChat ping. An Alipay transfer. Digital confetti on your screen.
But before the QR codes and group chats, there was the physical red envelope, 红包 (hóngbāo), 利是 (lai see), ang pau (âng-pau), crisp paper, gold foil stamping, embossed characters, textured stock you could actually feel.
Originally rooted in Chinese New Year and special occasions like weddings and graduations, the red envelope tradition began in China and spread across Southeast Asia and diaspora communities worldwide. The money inside mattered. But so did the design.
Are you team digital transfer or team paper hongbao?
#radiimedia #angpao #hongbao #laisee #design
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