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Here’s one line to sum up Shanghai nightlife’s latest shift: you’re going club hopping, but each spot is just a 2-min walk.
Shanghai is building out actual nightlife clusters.
After this started appearing across the city center,@alter.shanghai , @heimshanghai , and @socialsupplyshanghai — each originally connected to completely different communities — decided to come together for an event at a warehouse far from
downtown, with stage design by @kekexiili , What began as a single event gradually became another kind of cluster: scenes, sounds, and crowds that don’t usually share the same dancefloor, colliding all in one place. With so many elements fused together, with your choice on what to enjoy, they aptly titled the event: UP TO U.
It reminds us that the nights you actually remember are never the ones you planned; sometimes the best nights are the ones you never defined.
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Time: Saturday, May 23rd, from 14:00 - LATE
Location: 535 Jinqiao Road, Pudong New District, Shanghai
#radii #radiimedia #chinanightlife #rave #warehouserave
Here’s one line to sum up Shanghai nightlife’s latest shift: you’re going club hopping, but each spot is just a 2-min walk.
Shanghai is building out actual nightlife clusters.
After this started appearing across the city center,@alter.shanghai , @heimshanghai , and @socialsupplyshanghai — each originally connected to completely different communities — decided to come together for an event at a warehouse far from
downtown, with stage design by @kekexiili , What began as a single event gradually became another kind of cluster: scenes, sounds, and crowds that don’t usually share the same dancefloor, colliding all in one place. With so many elements fused together, with your choice on what to enjoy, they aptly titled the event: UP TO U.
It reminds us that the nights you actually remember are never the ones you planned; sometimes the best nights are the ones you never defined.
CLICK LINK IN BIO or scan the QR code to RSVP >>>
Time: Saturday, May 23rd, from 14:00 - LATE
Location: 535 Jinqiao Road, Pudong New District, Shanghai
#radii #radiimedia #chinanightlife #rave #warehouserave
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Dear You (给阿嬷的情书) is a low-budget indie shot almost entirely in Chaoshan dialect, built around qiaopi (侨批): the remittance letters that served as lifelines between Chinese emigrants in Southeast Asia and the families they left behind.
The story follows Xiaowei, a debt-ridden grandson who travels to Thailand to track down his rumored billionaire grandfather, Zheng Musheng. What he finds instead unravels everything: his grandfather died long ago, and the man who had been exchanging love letters with his grandmother, Ye Shurou, for decades was a complete stranger. A half-century of hidden feeling, quietly kept alive through paper and ink.
That detail is the whole film. Loyalty not to a person, but to the ritual of keeping someone alive across oceans. In Dear You, it holds two families together across half a century.
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Dear You (给阿嬷的情书) is a low-budget indie shot almost entirely in Chaoshan dialect, built around qiaopi (侨批): the remittance letters that served as lifelines between Chinese emigrants in Southeast Asia and the families they left behind.
The story follows Xiaowei, a debt-ridden grandson who travels to Thailand to track down his rumored billionaire grandfather, Zheng Musheng. What he finds instead unravels everything: his grandfather died long ago, and the man who had been exchanging love letters with his grandmother, Ye Shurou, for decades was a complete stranger. A half-century of hidden feeling, quietly kept alive through paper and ink.
That detail is the whole film. Loyalty not to a person, but to the ritual of keeping someone alive across oceans. In Dear You, it holds two families together across half a century.
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A sneaker built from a 4,000-year-old ceramic tradition.
@nike `s Shox Z Calistra x @labelhood.official (蕾虎) doesn`t just reference Longshan Culture (龙山文化), it encodes it. The collab`s black lacquer-like exterior mirrors the ancient black pottery (黑陶) tradition of Shandong Province, where craftspeople fired vessels so thin they could shatter from a fingerprint.
Where Western luxury flexes provenance (Italian leather, French ateliers), Chinese Gen Z labels are now flexing civilizational depth. When Chinese Gen Z says fashion should carry history, this is what it looks like.
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A sneaker built from a 4,000-year-old ceramic tradition.
@nike `s Shox Z Calistra x @labelhood.official (蕾虎) doesn`t just reference Longshan Culture (龙山文化), it encodes it. The collab`s black lacquer-like exterior mirrors the ancient black pottery (黑陶) tradition of Shandong Province, where craftspeople fired vessels so thin they could shatter from a fingerprint.
Where Western luxury flexes provenance (Italian leather, French ateliers), Chinese Gen Z labels are now flexing civilizational depth. When Chinese Gen Z says fashion should carry history, this is what it looks like.
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Meet SWYC: short for Structure. Wave. Youth. Cinema, named after its four founders: Shi Jian (时间), Wang Zijun (王子军), Kuang Yang (邝杨), and Chen Jue (陈爵). Formed in Beijing in 1989, the group spent the following decade making documentaries that nobody saw: films about reform school students, rural communities, and the texture of everyday life in a rapidly changing country.
Most of their work survived only on VHS, U-matic, and Betacam tapes. Many had never been digitized. With a microscopic eye trained on the lives of China`s grassroots underclass, these films are controversial, flawed — and for exactly that reason, they`re worth arguing over, worth restoring, and is long overdue within the broader history of Chinese documentaries. The films are currently being — be sure to check them out for more info.
#radii #radiimedia #chinesefilm #documentary #filmhistory
Meet SWYC: short for Structure. Wave. Youth. Cinema, named after its four founders: Shi Jian (时间), Wang Zijun (王子军), Kuang Yang (邝杨), and Chen Jue (陈爵). Formed in Beijing in 1989, the group spent the following decade making documentaries that nobody saw: films about reform school students, rural communities, and the texture of everyday life in a rapidly changing country.
Most of their work survived only on VHS, U-matic, and Betacam tapes. Many had never been digitized. With a microscopic eye trained on the lives of China`s grassroots underclass, these films are controversial, flawed — and for exactly that reason, they`re worth arguing over, worth restoring, and is long overdue within the broader history of Chinese documentaries. The films are currently being — be sure to check them out for more info.
#radii #radiimedia #chinesefilm #documentary #filmhistory
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Therapy Is Expensive. A Walk and a Camera Isn`t.
On RedNote, a new outdoor trend is helping China’s Gen Z find beauty and calm in the ordinary. Color walking is the latest low-effort, high-reward ritual taking over Xiaohongshu (小红书): pick one color, step outside, and photograph every object that matches.
When the algorithm is exhausting, a patch of blue does the job.
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Therapy Is Expensive. A Walk and a Camera Isn`t.
On RedNote, a new outdoor trend is helping China’s Gen Z find beauty and calm in the ordinary. Color walking is the latest low-effort, high-reward ritual taking over Xiaohongshu (小红书): pick one color, step outside, and photograph every object that matches.
When the algorithm is exhausting, a patch of blue does the job.
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#radii #radiimedia #xiaohongshu #colourwalk #chinesegenz
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