In 1995, this mall in Hefei (合肥绿都商城) was built on a specific idea of what the future would look like. By the time the future arrived, the place had already been forgotten.

It wasn`t alone. These malls went up across China during the `90s boom, when commercial architecture decided the future looked like galleons, glass domes, and escalators going nowhere in particular. The economy moved on. The malls didn`t.

But they found a new audience. Chinese Gen Z started showing up, and photos went viral on Xiaohongshu. What`s drawing them here isn`t nostalgia, they weren`t alive for it. A word keeps appearing in the comments: 梦核 (mèng hé), China`s own term for the feeling these spaces create. Something like liminal space, like a dream you once had.

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“Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy” at Singapore’s @artsciencemuseumsg asks a deceptively simple question: how do humans understand the body? The answers stretch across centuries, cultures, and belief systems.

From Renaissance anatomical drawings and dissected musculature to Chinese jingluo (经络) meridian maps and spiritual interpretations of energy flow, the exhibition reveals anatomy not as a fixed truth, but as a constantly evolving cultural conversation.

What makes Flesh and Bones hit differently now is how familiar this hybridity feels. We’re living in an era where wellness apps coexist with herbal remedies, where anatomy is visualized through data, spirituality, aesthetics, and self-optimization all at once. Rather than presenting one system as “correct,” the exhibition layers together radically different ways of seeing the human body — physical, energetic, emotional, cosmic — and lets the tension exist.

At its core, this isn’t just an exhibition about anatomy. It’s about identity, belief, and the stories societies tell themselves about what it means to be human.

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It‘s not every day that the CEO of LVMH walks into a Shanghai handbag brand’s store and walks out gushing about the two bags he bought. The brand: @songmont_official

Their story goes back to 2013, when the brand‘s founder couldn’t find a single bag in both form and function that she was happy to take to work—so her mother decided to stitch her one. They decided to sell the laptop tote, which sold out instantly. From that point on, one stitch at a time, Songmont steadily became one of the leading Chinese luxury accessories brands to date.

But forget the résumé — the real flex is how they actually make the goods. Every collection pulls from ancient Chinese craftsmanship; from Zhongyuan (中原) visual culture, to Shanxi temple rooflines, Silk Road caravan imagery, Tibetan tiger prints, and moon-phase motifs. None of it‘s hidden in a brand deck or a lookbook essay — they stitch their culture straight on to the bags themselves — and there’s no reason to be quiet about it.

In a world where luxury demands a high price tag, a storied logo, and a century of heritage, Songmont started with none of that. Just a real need and needle, where every stitch documents Chinese culture.

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Aside from his massively successful film career, Jackie Chan also lived a parallel life as a public-service spokesperson.

In the ‘90s, the action start partnered with Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland public-health authorities for a series of anti-smoking PSAs. Recently, they’ve gone viral again — not just because of nostalgia, but because of the unmistakable ‘90s PSA aesthetic: bold, one-line headlines and over-the-top poses. It feels completely opposite to today’s highly polished posters filled with too much sleekness, QR codes, and algorithm-bait.

Grabbing that cig? Just ask yourself before you do: WWJCD?

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Opening ciggies.app feels like flipping through a Pokébox, except the collection isn`t Pikachu and Charizard, it`s 3,000+ Chinese cigarette SKUs across 210+ brands, each tagged with regional origin, tar/nicotine levels, and a public leaderboard ranking users by how many they`ve personally collected. Built by anonymous dev collective 0x_ultra.

Feeling nostalgic, might need a smoke break after this.

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